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There is an awful lot of nonsense being talked at the moment. The figures from a week past Thursday give the Tories 318 votes in a Parliam...

Imagine politics through the lens of  Game of Thrones. War might be a constant but elections are its battles. Nobody wants to lose the war b...

I spent yesterday and earlier today wondering what to blog about. In the end I couldn't choose so here are just some random thoughts ab...

So, my plan was simple. Watch the exit poll and then go to bed waking up at 4am to see if it came true. All abandoned when we got that pol...

On Saturday I wrote the vast bulk of what was probably intended to be my last election blog. My intention was to finish the conclusion and t...

And so, just over a week out, here is my seventh election blog. It follows after a gap of nine days because of the terrible events of last M...

My wife Maureen has now very late stage Alzheimer's type dementia. She showed the first signs of it in 2004 and is now completely bed bo...