The Plashing Vole

What an odd 18 hours or so. My emotions – so far as I have any – are mixed. The joy is easy: my arch-nemesis Paul Uppal lost resoundingly. H...

I've largely kept my own counsel about the Labour Party leadership election . It's proving so divisive, and the arguments are so ted...

Jon Snow knows nothing. Evan Davis knows nothing. ICM knows nothing. Ipsos-Mori knows nothing. Lord Ashcroft knows nothing. Party HQs know n...

I won an election this week. A real, old-fashioned two-horse race with no prospect of coalitions, confidence-and-supply, deals, minority adm...

It's been an interesting week, for me at least. Varied, anyway. The election campaign rumbles away in the background and I'm getting...

Excellent photo by Justin Sullivan OK. My all-purpose Reckon on the election. Overall result: generally good. Obama's electoral c...

I don't know if you've been following the American Presidential nomination campaigns, but it's a fascinating example of why we a...

Your Republican candidates: 1. Mitt Romney - billionaire who claims the Republicans are about looking after the 'little guy'. Belie...

Well, the Irish election results are pretty much in, and if you listen to the press, it's a momentous revolution: With recounts takin...

No, not the Ireland v Bangladesh match in the Cricket World Cup: it's general election day too, in which the Irish people are going to...

Congratulations to Al Franken, committed lefty (by US standards anyway) and comedian, who was finally declared the winner of the Minnesota ...

Today we learn the answer to the question that's been on all our lips: which superannuated pompous idiot wants to stop representing thei...

Brilliant. Ian Gibson, the brilliant, troublemaking MP for Norwich has resigned his seat to trigger a bye-election . Hope he runs as an inde...

Merciless Public picks up on the story that the BNP's latest leaflet turns out to feature lots of happy smiling white people who aren...

Amidst all this disgust about political sleaze, there's an election going on, for the European parliament. I'm a hardline socialist,...

I've no idea what Sean Tevis is really like, but anyone who says good things about evolution and science, and steals ideas from XKCD f...

I follow the US election statistics on the Guardian 's round-up page, but an article today  suggests that if you really want to get into...

John McCain certainly thinks so, according to Robert Draper . The idea is that blogging journalists are so desperate to get a 'gotcha...