Elections
Polling Predictions #4
Well here we are for the fourth time with a brief look at the opinion polls. Don’t trust them an inch but rather look at the trends. It is with great delight that I can [more…]
General Election
Elections
Polling Predictions #3
Here we are with the 3rd instalment concerning UK Polling Report’s tweets. As has been mentioned more than once in the comments that nobody reads, beware of polls. I had hoped there would have been [more…]
Elections
Polling Predictions #2
This a quick look at the predictions UK Polling Report has been giving us this week. I hope there are crumbs of comfort for everyone in this data, well the hindu dwart and his buddies [more…]
Elections
Polling predictions
I noticed a twitter user called UK Polling Report and saw that it has predictions for many constituencies so having taken a look it only remained to document their predictions. I haven’t checked out how [more…]
Authoritarianism
Starmergeddon
What is Starmerism? Quite. Last weekend, Labour Party historian MP Jon Cruddas questioned the present Labour Party leader’s readiness for power, damning him as one who has few ties to the movement’s roots or ideology [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fifteen
Monday It’s Monday again and it’s wet again. Everyone was watching football in the office yesterday; at times they had two games on at the same time (on different TVs!). I had trouble working out [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Twelve
The day after the Election Jinnie slept late, in fact the whole house did. By the time she got downstairs and put the TV on the Reform Party had a 99 seat majority with two [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Eleven
It was about 6:30 and the Walsh family were nearly home from Windsor when Mr Walsh asked, “Anyone hungry?”. Jinnie realised she was famished, she had only managed a cup of tea and a scone [more…]
20th Century
Hunter S Thompson: Thou shouldst be living at this hour
Before he shot himself in 2005 after decades of cocaine & booze self abuse, HST produced some of the most remarkable commentary on the modern US political process. With insider access to the players involved, [more…]