If you ever wanted to crystalise the state of the election race, you couldn’t do much better than these two entirely adjacent posts on the BBC’s constantly updating election news ticker.  This cut and pasted exactly as it is on the BBC website. 0854: David Cameron is campaigning in north London. The Conservatives will “clean [...]

Savolinna is beautiful at this time of year. He’ll also be entering the printer punting extravaganza.

The NHS, and its sister organisations across the UK, are in dreadful shape. At best, a doctor would prescribe bed rest, at worst amputations. Waiting lists, overstressed doctors, Whitehall setting targets on the basis of focus group findings, and now the appointment of Andy Burnham conspire to load malady after malady on the services. A [...]

Anyone else just depressed by this idiot Ainsworth?

It’s not big and it’s not clever, and I know it’s not nice politics, and I know it’s taken out of context, but who couldn’t love his manic contrived attempts to appear human. I present, for your use, the Prime Mentalist. To give you an idea of how odd this smile is, consider the sentence [...]