The Plashing Vole

I took myself off to the People's History Museum last week, to see their exhibition of election posters. Not just because I'm a mass...

My chiselling and devious MP, Mr. Paul Uppal, has been asking a lot of questions recently. Not, of course, useful questions. Instead, they...

Mr Marr is rapidly declining mentally. Last week he uttered some rather confused and uninformed pearls of wisdom about blogging , this week ...

According to a book by Gordon Brown's pet pollster , British people are a bit thick, and Labour Party members (probably all party activi...

The banks have collapsed, the financial sector is in crisis and the seas are full of oil, thanks to deregulation, lack of oversight, contemp...

Good morning, readers. I'll be quiet today - got two mega-meetings (one for each department in which I work), neither of which will be ...

Messers CURTIS and ELTON, before they became Infected with the Curse of NOT BEING FUNNY, expressed all that is Good about Politickal Humour ...

It's both fun and sickening watching the end in real time, via journalists' Twitter feeds. Niall Paterson (a Sky hack and therefore...

Judging by the mood music on the post-election live blog, we're getting a Liberal-Conservative coalition, or alliance of some sort. L...

The bond markets are joining the rightwing press in their attempted coup . They're going to ignore the UK's massive economy and down...

Morning all. How's your day shaping up? I'm invigilating an exam. In law. For one person. It's multiple choice. So I guess I...

How do I feel about Gordon Brown's resignation as Prime Minister and party leader? Ambiguous, I think. When he and Blair took over the...

I think a basic requirement for a democracy is that the party distribution of elected members represents the votes cast. Although PR possibl...

This is from the Guardian's l ive election blog . It's worth repeating as a demonstration of the way certain elements of the media h...

I've been getting increasingly irate over the weekend by the sight and sound of bond market traders and bankers telling the media (and t...

How was the election for you? I gave up somewhere around 5 a.m. or so. I'm in an extremely bad mood and likely to remain so for the next...

It's election day, for Liberal and Labour voters - Tories get to vote tomorrow. Labour surged into a 100% share of the vote this mor...

Today's newspapers are depressing: moronic, manipulative and arrogant ( The Express : 'Only David Cameron Can Save Britain' FFS)...

I've been mightily impressed by Plaid Cymru and the Scottish Nationalist Party during this electoral cycle, and they're clearly work...

Prompted by a mention on the radio yesterday, I dig out my old Rev. W. Awdry railway books, and discover that Gordon the Big Engine is compe...