I was annoyed by the otherwise excellent Chris Mullin's memoirs, where he admits without shame that he often didn't bother to read the papers for committee meetings. I remember being on committees wi… (View Post)

I think CR's post is evocative but too generalised - as others have said about themselves, I know lots of people who knock themselves out for one service or another with no expectation of reward. For… (View Post)

Dramatic changes there. Ipsos's previous polls had Labour on 46 (Nov) and 41 (Jan) so they do jump about more than most. The LD levels were 12 and 13, so the near-halving to 7 looks like an outlier. … (View Post)

When I was once canvassing for a by-election up north, a care home nurse offered to cast all the votes of dementia residents for us. I declined, but a few weeks later there was a scandal when it was … (View Post)

That's a very odd view, even leaving aside the less than perfect nature of democracy in Gaza. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Palestinian_local_elections for the background. Anyway,… (View Post)