Books,Politics,Top Fives

Top five controversial political memoirs

Top five controversial political memoirs

Lord Mandelson is set to ‘ruffle some feathers’ with his tell-all autobiography The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour. Scheduled for publication this summer, the book will apparently expose the ‘soap opera’ that played out behind N0 10 during the years of New Labour.  Here are five more controversial political memoirs…   [Read more...]

Politics,Top Fives

Top five wastes of taxpayers’ money

Top five wastes of taxpayers’ money

It was revealed today that the UK Trade and Investment Office wasted an shocking £12,000 on its own-branded golf balls to be handed out as gifts to foreign business associates. This is only the most recent example of governments pointlessly spending taxpayers’ money. Here’s our top five of the biggest wastes of public money… [Read more...]

Politics

Where to watch the election

Where to watch the election

Everyone of a certain age remembers where they were on Election night 1997 when Tony Blair took power, sweeping aside 18 years of Tory rule. With the result too close to call, tonight’s result may prove just as tumultuous. Now obviously it’s compulsory for all right-minded people to tune into the BBC with Dimbleby and the latest version of the swingometer and all that. But, in all honesty, election night TV is a gruelling mix of excitement and stamina. If you’re not up to the challenge, here are some other places to watch events unfold: [Read more...]

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Organise, piss up, brewery, a, couldn’t, in a — top five election gaffes

Organise, piss up, brewery, a, couldn’t, in a — top five election gaffes

An election, like any other British endeavour (and we’re thinking of the forthcoming Olympics here), has numerous opportunities for pitfalls of the most heroically stupid kind. This one, the most peculiar and complicated for some time, has been memorable for some particularly dozy gaffes. . . [Read more...]

Gaming,Politics

Game on — our top three election shoot ‘em ups

Game on — our top three election shoot ‘em ups

While ruminating where to plonk your cross today why not procrastinate just that little bit longer by diverting yourself with three of our favourite online election games. They’re free so they’re probably not going to help anyone out of the debt crisis but if you still haven’t made your mind up you’re probably not too worried about that are you? [Read more...]

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Top-five election campaign cock-ups

Top-five election campaign cock-ups

An election campaign is a stressful time, especially if like Gordon Brown your job depends on it. So while the Prime Minister was busy in Rochdale doing David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s jobs for them, we thought we’d trawl through the archives to see how previous campaign cock-ups played out at the ballot box. [Read more...]

Politics,Snacks

Political scoop of the year?

Political scoop of the year?

Quite apart from our political leaders gurning, sorry, grinning from every platform possible, they have now managed to find their way onto that most innocent of objects, the ice cream tub. [Read more...]

Politics

Leaders’ debate – it’s a draw

Leaders’ debate – it’s a draw

If there’s one thing we at Esquire like even more than a healthy slice of good, well-reasoned debate over the serious issues of the moment it’s some completely arbitrary piss-takey and sarcastic comments regarding the same – preferably in picture form so we don’t have to tax our brains too hard. [Read more...]