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Guru breathed a sigh of relief for the training sector when it was revealed that the Cabinet Office has been spending tens of thousands of pounds training staff in how to deal with difficult conversations. Guru welcomes this new open-door policy on spending and has heard that a minister might be preparing a memo, possibly outlining the extravagant waste...

The MP who claimed £1,645 on expenses for that indispensable tool of government - a floating duck island - is to sell it to raise money for charity. Tory MP for Gosport Sir Peter Viggers told the Portsmouth News he felt "humiliated" after his expense claims were published in the Daily Telegraph . The £30,000 claim for gardening costs, which...

Great news! The government has announced the formation of a new task force aimed at making sure the UK's workers have enough bacon for our sarnies. The impressively titled Pig Meat Supply Chain Task Force will focus on, not unsurprisingly, getting the suppy chain working better in the pig industry. Guru loves pigs or, more specifically, the meat...

Guru knows we have long lived in a nanny state, but things took a turn for the worse this afternoon when Yours Truly received a missive from the government on the importance of turning back his clock. Yep, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform felt it neccessary to inform Guru that British Summer Time (a joke in itself) ended...