A round-up of the post-general election 2015 frontpages
Smug, sombre, and sweet.The general election is over. Here are the papers rubbing the sleep from their eyes and splashing their reactions into the hollow face of Saturday morning. The Sun goes for a...
View ArticleGood news for Scottish Labour! JK Rowling invites Jim Murphy to be in Gryffindor
"Unbelievable guts".Hats off to Jim. Photos: YouTube screengrab & GettyAs Britain's cruel giant electoral sorting hat has lumped the country firmly in Slytherin, there is a shred of hope for...
View ArticleThe saddest tweet of all: a minister who didn't know he had been reshuffled
He's not crying. It's just raining on his face.No pain, no Swayne. Photo: GettyDavid Cameron is conducting his first reshuffle since winning a majority. Bad news for Desmond Swayne, the minister for...
View ArticleDavid Lammy's local newspaper mixes him up with a former junta leader from...
"If anyone knows who this guy is please let him know he's now the MP for Tottenham. . ."This is not a photograph of David Lammy. Photo: David Lammy via TwitterClearly the Tottenham and Wood Green...
View ArticleWatch: new Tory minister Priti Patel's excruciating blather when asked if she...
"Why are you not willing to say whether or not you believe something?""It was made a long time ago and it is not relevant to today's debate at all," says Employment Minister Priti Patel about her...
View ArticleEqualities Minister Caroline Dinenage voted against gay marriage - now she...
Frontbench backflips.The long walk to promotion. Photo: GettyYou mole may not have eyes to see, but it can certainly sniff a trend emerging among the new all-Tory frontbench. Not only did Nicky Morgan...
View ArticleAfter a ten-year legal battle, the Prince Charles "black spider" letters are...
But what's the Patagonian Toothfish got to do with it?Badgers gon' badge. Photo: Flickr/Peter TrimmingGood news for transparency and Patagonian Toothfish! Bad news for badgers and monarchs!After a...
View ArticleBBC presenter accidentally calls Nigel Farage a c*** live on air
Norman Smith accidentally unleashes the C-Bomb on Nigel Farage while describing the problem with his "personality cult".Nigel Farage: massive cult. Photo: GettyThe BBC's Norman Smith, describing the...
View ArticleCongratulations on your all-male panel! The Tumblr that exposes how men...
The Hoff approves your sausage-fest in a new site dedicated to all the times conference organisers forgot that 51 per cent of the population exists and might have something to contribute.Men discussing...
View ArticleA Welsh voter drew a "detailed" penis on his ballot paper - and it was...
"The returning officer deemed it a valid vote".A ballot paper, awaiting a cross. Photo:GettyGlyn Davies, the recently re-elected MP for Montgomeryshire, has thanked a voter who drew a “detailed...
View ArticleRobert Halfon wants to rebrand the Tories as “The Workers’ Party” – but what...
“When we knock on people’s doors, I want people to know we are on their side – on the side of the workers, that we are the workers,” said the MP for Harlow.Robert Halfon wants to rebrand the Tories as...
View ArticleThe many lives of Liz Kendall's website: A Cautionary Tale in Website...
Liz Kendall today launched a new website, www.lizforleader.com. But her aides neglected to register www.lizforleader.co.uk, with "hilarious" consequences. Labour leadership contender Liz Kendall....
View ArticleIrish people going #hometovote in the gay marriage referendum is the cutest...
Irish people are travelling from all over the world to vote.Irish people from all over the world are travelling to Ireland to vote in today's gay marriage referendum. In a heartwarming boost for the...
View ArticleWatch: Tory London Mayoral hopeful Ivan Massow confronted about not paying...
"Oh, God."The good thing about radio these days is that sometimes you can watch it. In this case, you can see Ivan Massow squirming on LBC, when confronted with the fact that he's advertising for a...
View ArticleWestboro Baptist Church's bizarre feud with JK Rowling over the concept of...
Tiny bigoted Vines.JK Rowling has locked horns with famed hate speech aficionados the Westboro Baptist Church. And it's all gone a bit weird.Following the Irish gay marriage referendum result, Rowling...
View ArticleAwkward: Lucy Powell MP isn't invited to Labour MPs' post-Queen's Speech Nandos
Cheeky.A Peri Peri sad day for Lucy Powell.
View ArticleWatch: Someone has created a film trailer for "Forgetting Ed Miliband"
Move aside, Sarah Marshall.Luckily, this image is a mock up. Photo: Youtube screengrabRemember that guy, Ed Miliband? One time leader of the Labour party? Teen heartthrob? Bacon sandwich botherer?Nah,...
View Article"Don't know where he got that idea from": Jim Murphy's top Twitter Blatter...
Election, resignation, self-deprecation.Back of the net. Photo: GettyJim Murphy, voted leader of Scottish Labour last December only to resign after the election, has some sympathy with Sepp Blatter,...
View ArticleWatch: Alex Salmond tells Tory minister Anna Soubry to "behave yourself, woman"
Progressive politics, huh.It's a new parliament, and a brave new world of progressive politics brought on by a tidal wave of benevolent socialist utopians, the SNP. Hooray for a leftwing alternative!...
View Article"Humble and obedient"? Andy Burnham was just following protocol when writing...
Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham's sign-off on a letter to Prince Charles, which he wrote while Health Secretary, may seem obsequious, but it's nothing personal.Poor Andy Burnham. The Labour...
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