This week I took part in a hustings. Does anyone, except my online stalkers, enjoy them?
I have a recurring nightmare, which I now find has made its way into the real world – the Mediterranean, to be precise.
Also: Welsh Conservative leader disowns the national manifesto; and Villiers defends the party’s choice of candidates in Northern Ireland.
They seem to be more back in vogue with all political parties than at any time since the 1970s.
First, a left-wing health event. Second, immensely clever students at my old school. Third, a hustings about motorbikes, chaired by Lembit Opik.
Plus: Tories – too vague. UKIP – too specific. LibDems: what are they for? Why the polls could all be wrong. And: I win an award, and am baffled.
Think of today’s two main parties led in 2015 by Nicholas Soames and Denis Healey and you are part of the way there.
Right to Buy is back, baby, And it’s magnificent.
Having failed to destroy the Union by turning Scottish voters against it, Salmond now proposes to do so by turning English ones against it instead.
Also: the DUP rule out any formal parliamentary arrangement with the SNP; and the Tories grant the Welsh Assembly powers of redefinition.
The city state’s stability is impressive. But it it bought at the price of stagnation.
I see it as important that the next administration should have an adequate Parliamentary majority in order to put the SNP in its place.
Take it all with a pinch of salt. Do your best and, cometh the hour, “treat those two imposters just the same”.
UKIP’s false dichotomies demand we become brutal to prove our loyalty to Britain. Doing so is indecent.
The inconvenient truth is this: the UK has significantly worse outcomes than many other advanced countries which deliver universal access to healthcare.