While campaigning Ed Miliband pledged that as leader of the Labour party he would support the referendum on the Alternative Vote. Having proved either unable or unwilling to deliver on this promise, it is curious that the Guardian have not picked up on this apparent ‘broken promise’.

Apparently the only person who is held accountable for their pledges in Westminster is Nick Clegg.

The two met last night to discuss the legislative impasse brought about by intransigent Labour peers blocking the bill on voting reform.

Astonishingly the Guardian failed to mention the hypocrisy of Ed Miliband on this issue.

President Obama broke with international convention yesterday to press China over its record on human rights. International precedence has hitherto suggested western leaders are supposed to adopt a stance of simpering sycophancy, with more interest in obtaining trade concessions than advancing the ‘principles’ they hold.

Of course hectoring on rights and principles is normally reserved for nations that either have no resources western leaders need or refuse to give them if they do.

Way to go Barack for actually having principles rather than merely feigning them when convenient.

Tony Blair’s correspondence with George W Bush relating to the invasion of Iraq has been sponged from the government record. A team from the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war found out that the former prime minister’s private secretary at Number Ten routinely deleted references to Mr Blair’s dealings with the US president from the government records as they were considered a personal correspondence.

David Cameron yesterday admitted he was powerless to order the release of the information.

For more on Blair’s Iraq correspondence, see the Independent