Britain's House of Commons has published its members' expense reports, and the Guardian take account of some of the more amusing claims. My favorite is either "£100 for hair straighteners" or "£70.50 for a locksmith after locking himself out" but there's something here for everybody.

Dozens of voters across Europe turned up this weekend to cast their ballots for the European Parliament. The result was an impressive victory for the parties of the right. How'd the politicians we (i.e., me) follow do? READ MORE

In the wake of the Labour party's terrible showing in local elections, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has reshuffled his cabinet-even appointing the British version of Donald Trump, although that is a terribly inapt comparison, to an advisory role-as another five cabinet members have resigned, one just moments ago. Brown held a press conference in which he insisted he would not resign; Alan Johnson, everyone's candidate to succeed him, has not definitively ruled out a challenge to Brown, although he has agreed to serve as Home Secretary. Still, it's not yet clear if the opposition Conservative party will get the 40% of the national vote they'd need for a decent majority at the next Parliamentary election, and will not be for several hours, by which point I will be long gone and probably fairly well into a bottle. So we'll mop up on Monday.

In response to my long-ass screed about Graydon Carter yesterday, a reader writes: "Great bit, and I'm reluctant to criticise because your précis of the Euro elections was great, but the Telegraph didn't just pay to get a jump on their rivals. The July the 1st release is going to be redacted. For 'safety' reasons many personal details and, most importantly, the addresses of MPs are being witheld. Without these it would have been impossible to uncover the repeated 'flipping' of the designated second home or its presence far from Westminster. READ MORE

Taking Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair editor's letters seriously is probably, on the whole, less pernicious than, say, taking anything Michael Wolff ever writes seriously. Carter doesn't need to be outrageous; he knows that attention will accrue to him no matter what he says (or doesn't), unlike Wolff, whose increasingly desperate pleas for attention will no doubt shortly result in a blog post about how only Michael Wolff has the courage to admit that black people are scary. That said, Carter's current missive irks the hell out of me. Because it's just plain wrong. READ MORE

Fun times continue over in Britian! As Gordon Brown's government loses another minister, members of his Labour party are organizing a plot to remove him from office by the beginning of next month. A devastating editorial in the pro-Labour Guardian calls on Brown to resign, and the paper also offers up what is essentially his political obituary.

John Cook saves me the trouble of having to do another expenses scandal post and explain who the Barclay brothers are. Thanks, John! You ever get tired of working for money, there's a spot waiting for you here.

The bewildered unfortunate you see here is Andrew Mackay, a British MP caught up in that country's ongoing expenses scandal. Since apparently I am the only one on this site interested in the story, I'll spare you the embedded 20-minute video, but if you want to see what the Guardian calls "political decapitation, English-style... absolutely terrifying," please click through. Do note, though, that English-style political decapitation is nowhere near exciting as you'd expect if you're a regular viewer of "The Tudors."