More Bilge From Bottler Brown And His Mates

Calibrating compassion: it seems the government believes there is absolutely nothing in life that cannot be measured and rated and turned into figures for their authoritarian regime. Even nurses are to be rated on their compassion.

Labour has confirmed that it will not field a candidate against David Davis in the forthcoming by-election. All Brown had to do was put up a candidate with strong pro-42-day-detention views and see how popular his legislation actually was. But, as usual, he's bottled out of it.

Deprived as we may have been on a referendum about the Lisbon Constitution (sorry, Treaty), we can nevertheless sign a petition.