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I keep asking what exactly is meant by "Left" and "Right", which are used more as labels in political argument to cut di...

"I'll always have to take my parliament with me..." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33584548 READER: PLEASE CLICK THE REACTI...

Was it Attlee who, when asked why on Earth middle class people should vote Labour, replied "Because it's the right thing to do"...

Whether the current voting system is broken or running fine, depends on your point of view. For the Tories it seems to be going swimmingly. ...

    I noticed the absence from the MoS early last Sunday; Steerpike joined in on Wednesday; no explanation. Now it's non-ha...

The story so far (c. 7 a.m., data from BBC , 1 "other" seat discounted): READER: PLEASE CLICK THE REACTION BELOW - THANKS! ...

  The Daily Mail has an estimated 2 million print readers - 6 million readers if you count Internet viewers. Like the Sun, it...

Here is something to think about. On local TV the other day the UKIP candidate for one of the seats up here (can't remember his name...

Influential blogger Richard North thinks our best chance of an EU referendum is to vote Conservative this time. I think he is mistaken. E...

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? No, I haven't, and I didn't know his name until I looked him up by his job . Yet he and his committee...

Choose! ( pic source ) Once again, " EU Referendum " comes out as an allegedly reluctant Tory, urging us to vote Conservative...

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In the General Election campaign of 1970, Alan Aldridge designed a controversial poster showing plasticine models of the Conservative Cabine...

Peter Hitchens describes this as "the most fraudulent General Election I have ever experienced" and discusses Norman Tebbit's...

Source Listening to Radio 4 this lunchtime: 1. " Dead Ringers " (satire): all the GB parties get a swipe, even the Greens -...

"David Cameron has said he would be “delighted” to stage an early referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, if the Conservatives g...

Hugh Lofting's illustration of the Pushmepullyou in "Doctor Dolittle" The SNP wants independence for Scotland, but not t...

A brilliant site from the New Economics Foundation quantifies the skewing of our electoral system: Go to the site to find out what you...

Electoral Calculus gives its latest prediction for next month's General Election: the Conservatives to be the largest minority, and onl...

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