Not only MPs are experts in wasting taxpayers’ money. Oxford University know perhaps even better how to do that:
The assumption has always been that rainy weather is good for ducks. Now a three-year study funded to the tune of £300,000 by the taxpayer has proved it.
Two scientists from the University of Oxford gave a lucky group of farm ducks access to a pond, a water trough and a shower. They discovered that the ducks spent …

54% of the British public say the PM must call elections immediately, but what is immediately? Today would be nice, indeed, but that is not going to happen. Instead, there are now talks about the possibility of October elections, which would on one hand be relatively soon, but on the other might give Labour to gain at least some popularity back:
One senior minister said: “The argument is that as we reform expenses this summer, we …

A Tory MP Nadine Dorries found an interesting comparison – she thinks that exposing the outrageous and sometimes illegal claims the MPs have made is kind of like a “McCarthy-style witchunt:”
The campaign to expose MPs’ Commons expense claims has become so personal that it has started to resemble a McCarthy-style witchhunt, a Tory backbencher said today.
Nadine Dorries, the member for Mid-Bedfordshire, also warned that the relentless drip-drip of leaked claims was creating …