Personally interesting as I'm contemplating retirement (at 74) after a stroke last month that's left no physical signs except a need to sleep more - harder to judge mental effects. I'v… (View Post)

Local knowledge is crucial in interpreting the tactical situation. In the three seats that I'm fairly familiar with, all of them with LDs 2nd last time and I think 3rd in 2015, I see Labour bidd… (View Post)

Yes, I like to think I'm relaxed about paying tax and I'd cheerfully affect a rise in the higher rate to, say, 42%, but I put a chunk into my work pension fund last year to stay under the £… (View Post)

Yes, I did and I recognise it was a bad decision. (View Post)

The safest is IMO to trust sharp sustained movements from the same pollster - whatever the rights and wrongs of their assumptions, they will be comparable from one poll to the next. It's like ca… (View Post)