Are elections really decided on such ephemera as that? I suspect not - it will be the good honest pocket book questions which will decide along with motivation and ground campaigning. (View Post)

As for Mandelson, just an aside. It's interesting @Casino_Royale calls him, in jest I suspect, "a Lib". He was many things but a political liberal he was not. He was a centraliser want… (View Post)

The Simon Sebag Montefiore piece is in line with other reports trickling out of Iran and it may well be the final death toll from the regime's brutal crackdown will never be known. Was there a w… (View Post)

Morning all :) Apologies if already posted but we have the weekly More In Common numbers: Reform: 30% (+1) Labour: 21% (-1) Conservative: 20% (=) Liberal Democrat: 14% (+1) Green: 10% (=) Fieldwork 3… (View Post)

From what I recall, even if there were those on the LD side who would have preferred a coalition with Labour rather than the Conservatives, the truth was such a coalition would have struggled - Conse… (View Post)