Archive for the ‘UK Politics’ Category

Rory Bremner, the impressionist, adopts the persona of David Cameron while performing a witty cover of Pulp’s Common People.

A new film on the history of party political broadcast that has been produced by the BFI with the support from   Hanover.  You can see an amusing trailer for it here.

You can buy a copy for £14.95 (with £10 of this going to the Dimbleby cancer charity) by emailing PPB_DVD@hanovercomms.com .

Intercut with the fabulous footage are very striking contemporary interviews, the most striking being with Neil Kinnock.

A nostalgic look at PB’s

Daily Telegraph has today launched its MPs’ Expenses database, an online tool which allows the whole nation to analyse our MPs’ expense claims.

Published: 11:45AM BST 23 Jun 2009

We view the project as a work in progress and over the coming weeks we will be adding new features and functionality plus the uncensored expenses files for all 646 MPs. We began this process last week with the publication of the uncensored cabinet files from 2004/5 to 2008/9 and we will be adding to these in the days ahead.

• The Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses database