One thing everyone in politics loves – with the exception of cabinet ministers – is a good reshuffle.  And the government has so far (minor tweaks aside) disappointed us.  Discussing the rumours of a summer reshuffle this morning, we got to thinking – what would happen to the Libs in a reshuffle? One of the [...]

This one’s pretty obvious really.  A paralysed woman manages to complete the marathon in a bionic suit (an absolutely amazing feat) but London Marathon organisers refuse to give her a medal as it took her 16 days to reach the finish line. We’d like to offer our congratulations to Claire Lomas – and we give [...]

This week, I’d like to draw attention to the Daily Telegraph’s excellent city briefing emails.  They’re a fantastic daily digest of all the business news of the morning, arriving in your inbox at the commuter-friendly time of 8am.  With Damian Reece recently stepping into Richard Fletcher’s shoes as main author, the emails contain a summary [...]

There’s lots going on in the papers today, and the daily OR news meeting chat was unusually energised for first thing on a Monday morning. The row over Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s gay marriage comments continued to be a hot topic of discussion, with the Cardinal’s appearance on this morning’s Today Programme the centre of conversation.  We at [...]

This title undoubtedly belongs to the Telegraph, for coming up with this gem.  We like to think that there is a secret, anti-monarchist faction in operation amongst the subs.