He's solidly sat on the fence on Tory leadership candidates though ;) (View Post)

In different ways Carter, Reagan, Clinton (WJ), Dubya, Obama and Biden all possess folksiness. It feels almost essential in US politics in a way that isn't quite true elsewhere. Some strange Forrest … (View Post)

56 constituencies, with 5 overlapping others? (View Post)

And yet, and yet (as I have mentioned before), the highest vote share for any single party in the 15 largest European democracies west of the old iron curtain. (View Post)

The by elections in aggregate are not quite saying that yet, though there is chance for v things to change. The mega Thursday last week was pretty consistent with the September aggregate. The very la… (View Post)