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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Sparrow

Worth a look

Boris Johnson, writing in the Daily Telegraph, urges Barack Obama to drop the "cruel and irrational" US attempt to extradite Gary McKinnon, the computer hacker with Asperger's syndrome.

Rachel Sylvester reports in the Times on the sense of alarm in Labour circles, and the Downing Street adviser who says "the frenetic activity makes us look like headless chickens".

Derek Draper at LabourList has some advice for the four Labour peers involved in the Sunday Times controversy based on his own experience in a lobbying scandal 10 years ago.

Max Hastings, in the Daily Mail, says the continuation of the bank bonus culture is "an insult to millions of people who are losing their jobs".

Lord Smith of Finsbury, the chairman of the Environment Agency, tells the Financial Times in an interview that there's a "very big chance" that the third runway at Heathrow will not go ahead.

Daniel Kawczynski MP writes on Iain Dale's blog to say that his confidence in the Speaker has been "badly shaken" by the way Michael Martin handled his complaint about how a police officer obtained a letter from his office.

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