Carpe per diem!
Francis Sedgemore, Wednesday 22 April 2009
No receipts necessary, says the PM.
How’s that for a nice, easy expenses fiddle? But you have to admit that a parliamentary per diem is a brilliant solution to the bad press the government is getting over sponging ministers and their exotic television viewing habits.
Feed the writer! 

Friday 24 April 2009 at 20:28 GMT
It’s Herbert Lom!
Friday 24 April 2009 at 21:16 GMT
Your and your Gordon Brown fantasies, Alec! Whatever next?
Saturday 25 April 2009 at 14:15 GMT
He’s just so sultry.