Politics — a tawdry world once famously labelled "showbusiness for ugly people" — rarely makes for interesting or riveting entertainment, but the ongoing scandal about MPs' expenses has been fascinating and repulsive in equal measure. The standing of British politicians has been low in recent years but the revelation that many of them have been claiming for stuff like compost, moat cleaning and even a mole hunter — as well as engaging in the sort of creative financial accounting that would get the rest of us arrested — has seen their stock plummet even further. Even estate agents are currently seen in a better light. You can sense a sea change in British politics right now, one that will reach a head with the next general election, likely to be next year. Whatever happens, the next 12 months or so promise to be very interesting indeed.

- Kieran Wyatt, Managing Editor