Common Endeavour

• Well done the comrades on the Gurkha debate yesterday! The comrades, I hear you roar? THE COMRADES?! For was it not David Cameron who posed with Joanna Lumley outside St Stephen's Entrance for the cameras with wee Nicky Clegg? (Yea!) Was it not the Government that was defeated at the vote and promised to bring forward the review of the guidance to before the summer recess and put a moratorium on deportations? (Yea!) Why yes, to all of the above. But it was actually the LABOUR backbenchers by and large - who have been lobbying for years for justice - who so successfully put on the pressure yesterday to bring about the changes (although hon menshes go to Ann Widdecombe and other Liberal and Tory members of the APPG on Gurkha Rights). The rest is just vacuous grandstanding by two leaders with pretty hair for the benefit of headlines involving the words "BROWN" and "CRISIS." Guess it depends whether you think politics should be about process or progress, I guess;

• Paul Sagar at the Liberal Conspiracy on the "brain drain";
• The expenses vote is on today, people. Mike Smithson has concerns for the Gord, whilst Conservative Laurence Robertson outlines his priorities;
• I was alerted - via an audible grinding of teeth coming from the direction of my colleague - to Rod Liddle's latest word salad on TEH EVIL FEMINAZIS;
• ... and well done to Hopi Sen for coining the term "self absorbed  little poncebag" to describe Giles Coren, and RecessMonkey for some truly appalling swine fever gags.

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