A reasonable test of current electoral opinion tomorrow with 5 local by-elections, The Conservatives are defending 4 (Arun, Cannock Chase, Lancaster, and West Sussex) with an Ind defence in Hartlepoo… (View Post)

I think Wendy Morton is the first woman to be Chief Whip in a Conservative government. But she is the second Wendy to be a Chief Whip in the House of Commons. The first was Wendy Chamberlain for the … (View Post)

Feeling my age. Just watched a documentary about Sid James - then realised that he died 46 years ago. (View Post)

Just 2 local by-elections today - in Redditch and Worcestershire. Both Con defences - in fact caused by a double-hatted vacancy. (View Post)

Just finished a chapter in my current fiction reading. I have had to look up a number of words - I now know the meaning of barrater, liripipe, houpalande, and sambocade. (View Post)