Courtesy of Tim Ireland: Drawing the Line You’ll need sound. You’ll need to be prepared to end up simultaneously sad, horrified and angry. You’ll find it rather more difficult to defend voting for Tony Blair’s Labour party on May 5th.

Here you go – over at the General Election Blog. Lots of good stuff once again, including Chris Lightfoot explaining the methodology behind that political survey which I wrote about while drunk in my last post. Elsewhere, A Big Stick … Continue reading →

Via Robin Grant. It’s pissing infuriating, but interesting nonetheless: Political Survey 2005. The first page of results seems moderately accurate for a change. Then it goes apeshit mental. Take it, go on. Post your results in the comments if you … Continue reading →

Up now at the General Election Blog. Good stuff once again – hopefully by the end of next week I’ll have shifted some work and have time to do one myself… Some others which caught my eye today (well, yesterday, … Continue reading →

A couple of relatives of mine are Tories from a moderately safe Tory seat, so they thought nothing of this bit of suspect tactics. If this is widespread, however, it could be incredibly dodgy – and a lot tougher to … Continue reading →

If you’ve wandered past a newstand at any point today, you can’t have missed the rabid scare stories about how damn close we came to being massacred by some evil terrorist. Because, let’s face it, nearly being massacred is a … Continue reading →

Check it out, there’s some good stuff there. The following are sites I mean to check out, and are here largely for my reference. Ignore them if you like, or check them out and let me know which ones should … Continue reading →

A couple of days ago Michael Howard laid out his party’s masterplan for “The British Dream” (a particularly clunky appropriation of American political terminology). In fairness, the Conservatives have had the decency to keep their propaganda short, so for once … Continue reading →

Soon I hope to have in my posession a short(ish) manuscript which purports to show “how the inherent rights of the people in the U.K. (which are already constitutionally, legally established) will be annihilated by the proposed d’Estaing constitution for … Continue reading →

Via the ever-sarcastic Mr. Chicken Yoghurt, the latest roundup from the General Election Blog – including a couple of contributions from this very site. (Although quite when it became “mighty” I have no idea. That’s probably just the sarcasm again. … Continue reading →

Today’s the day for confirmation hearings into John Negroponte’s nomination as National Intelligence Director(NYTimes). Negroponte has a somewhat chequered past, parlaying a career in the murky pond of Latin American / US relations (El Salvador, Nicaragua) into that of senior … Continue reading →

Thus far, it seems everyone has learned the lessons of the last few elections: bringing up Europe is the kiss of death to any serious British election campaign. Staunchly anti-EU broadsheet the Telegraph has no mention of Europe among its … Continue reading →