The connection between holding a seat and the direction of swing isn't anywhere near that predictable. Although there are inevitably local factors which affect individual wards, when you take the agg… (View Post)

Yesterday's council by-elections Birmingham: Lab hold Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole: Ind hold Ceredigion: Plaid Cymru GAIN from Lab Eastbourne: LDm hold Mendip: Con hold Shropshire: Lab GAIN … (View Post)

I don't think so. This is a case where slightly boring, non-ideological beige is perhaps a good thing. And given a large part of government-level politics is 'It was the last lot's fault', they're go… (View Post)

Give it a couple of years, and even Ratner will be saying, 'Remember when I Kwasi-ed my company?' (View Post)

I found the dialect difficult for the first page or two, and then it simply became perfectly transparent - Hoban is a master. And the most depressing part of the story may have slipped past you - SPO… (View Post)