***** POLLING METHODOLOGY POST ****** I know we're not meant to criticise the British Polling Council on here, but I must say I think it gets everything wrong with its obsession with unbiased sa… (View Post)

For anybody who, like me, is: a) a bibliophile b) a Kindle owner c) cheap I recommend bookbub.com. It is a mailing list that emails you a daily list of 99p or £1.99p Kindle book deals that you can cu… (View Post)

Prime ministers represent the country not a particular region. It doesn't matter where they're from, any more than it matters where they went to school. What matters is that they have good … (View Post)

Actually, turnover info would be meaningless - the important thing to compare it with is absolute margin. If the business in question has profits of £100 million, it can probably absorb a cost increa… (View Post)

I don't think the feeling is that they've done nothing in two years, it's that they've done nothing GOOD in two years. Very different. Actually Labour got a remarkably easy ride i… (View Post)