Opinion polls are the methodone fix for unreconstructed politics addicts between elections.  Our resident pusher is Mike Smithson, the genial and analytically astute host of http://politicalbetting.com, a site which pulls together the rumour-mill, the important political; stories of the day and opinion polls, for the important task of facilitating the lucrative political betting market. It’s [...]

Is Gordon Brown a Bully whose temper is problematic for the staff surrounding him?  Will the sun rise tomorrow?  Does a bear shit in the woods?  Is the pope a catholic? In addition, the forces of hell, erections and Louise Bagshawe gives up on writing about hard polling.  (Some of this might not be in [...]