5 May, the day after the latest bout of local elections, was a suitably grey and drizzly day to be speaking to a Liberal Democrat Minister.

Picking my way, hooded and hunched, to Lynne Featherstone's Hornsey constituency office, I'm initially puzzled when the address I was given turns out...

The cynics among us will say students aren't interested in politics anymore. They condescend that the youth of today are more interested in Simon Cowell's latest retch-worthy attempt to kill off music as an art form once and for all, and in trying to breed with their cohabitants, than in...

As political double-acts go, the avid newt-keeper and the transvestite comedian is far from a conventional soapbox duo. Particularly when it's the newt enthusiast in question is the earnest, working-class Ken Livingstone, pairing up with the flamboyant and unapologetically cosmopolitan Eddie Izzard.

But such was the scene...