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Plus ca change - Jonathan Swift nailed it 300 years ago: It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. Despite my dislike of Badenoch and Trump, I have to admit to a perverse pleasure following their elections this week in witnessing the...

It's still there this morning, assuming it's the same 2mil I'm with the 'shy republican' theory too, unfortunately First State polls to close are Indiana and Kentucky around 10pm our time, with several more including the 'swing states' of Georgia and North Carolina around midnight I'll hang...

Having enjoyed catching-up with the latest Midsomer Murders romp I turned over to Sky News around 10.25pm in order to watch the Paper Review, only to be confronted by Trump in full-blown rambling stream-of-consciousness mode. Twenty surreal minutes later I switched off: more than enough. Trump...

Well, it will hopefully be a little less rocky now that the French public have seen sense and ganged-up against the far right, though there will undoubtedly be weeks of turmoil to come before a stable government is formed Am I guilty of exaggerating Blighty's influence in Europe by thinking...

The whole of Derbyshire is now Labour, some result. Glad that tit Michael Fabricant has lost nearby Lichfield Of Conservatives who've lost, sorry to see Tobias Ellwood and Robert Buckland go: decent coves both

Yep, thanks for the regular updates ID I started the night on BBC but my poor old peepers couldn't handle the hideous purple colour scheme they chose; it was like watching the results unfold whilst on an acid trip. So it was over to Sky News - which I generally prefer anyway - who had the...

No worries, the photogenic Ms Niblett did you proud Shame about Farage and Anderson but otherwise a cracking night(y)

It's a weak market but LibDems 60+ seats is now around 1.5 which suggests they might do well in the 'blue wall' It'd be just grand if they become the official opposition

Your incumbent MP Maria Miller strikes me one of the few half-decent centrist 'one nation' Tories though I do of course hope Mr Murphy triumphs I've voted and my red rose buttonhole caused some mirth Busy at the polling station and a teller informed me that voting had been 'brisk' all morning

Much flip-flopping as the day progresses no doubt but at present the favourite spread for Conservative seats has moved from 50-99 to 100-149 (Ian Davies' friend must have had a lump on:)) and Labour seats from 450-499 to 400-449 Very small differences mind, almost joint favs

That's the well-attested 'Shy Tory' category, first identified - I believe - after the 1992 election which Labour were forecast to win. They'll be even shyer this time and in the privacy of the polling booth the pencil might hover rather longer but will eventually be drawn to the magic word...

Labour Seats 450-499 2.18 400-449 3 350-399 8.2 500+ 24 450-499 shortening, 500+ drifting Intriguing:confused:

Counterintuitively, it strikes me as possible that a right wing France might actually ease the problem with illegal 'small boat' migration by them stepping up security at their continental borders and mediterranean coast, and/or a no-holds-barred closure of the Calais area camps and forced...

My grandmother was named Cornelia and it's my mother's second name. A rather nice name I think but Granny Connie disliked it so much as a girl that she insisted on being called Constance at school; a rathy nasty name I think but maybe it was fashionable in the early 1920s when she was a nipper :)

...crazy Met Office We anally retentive weather watchers whose blood pressure rockets when the phrase 'meteorological spring/summer/autumn/winter begins today' is bleated by a said office weatherperson on 1st of March/June/September/December know that they're three weeks too early The...

Whats's going on now and what might happen in 2029 resembles what happened in Canada 30+ years ago From Wikipedia (my highlighting}: The Reform Party of Canada (French: Parti réformiste du Canada) was a right-wing populist[1][2] and conservative federal political party in Canada that existed...

One of the very few pundits I enjoyed listening to: knowledgeable, erudite and humorous RIP

Yes, very much so. Loved the associated clobber too: Ben Sherman, Two-tone Sta-Press, Loake Brogues, though definitely not Oxford Bags :) Here ya go:

As you say, no point laying plenty to return a mars bar Amazingly it's now 95 with not insignificant orders up to 120. Daft and/or scary The Euro-elections are taking place over the next few days with far-right groups forecast to do well...we'll see

The worst value bet on 'the machine' is 100 Reform to win most seats...surely? Should be out at 1000 with the Lib Dems and Greens IMVHO