SCOT goes POP!

I had anticipated that if Ed Miliband was to win, he'd either have to be ahead in the members' section of the electoral college once...

So Ed Miliband has dramatically overtaken his brother as the favourite to be elected Labour leader with just hours to go. It's unclear ...

If Oona King had been selected as Labour's London mayoral candidate today, and a Tory spokesman had reacted by poking fun at her gender ...

I'm heartened to see that during my absence from the country all seems to have suddenly come right with the snooker world once again. T...

If you happened to see the umpteenth repeat of BBC 4's (peculiar but rather good) comedy/science crossover show It's Only a Theory ...

In a couple of posts a few weeks ago, I explained my theory that a reconstituted Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition was an unlikely outcome a...

Over at my old haunt Political Betting , Mike Smithson is off on one again, implying that it is in some way self-evident that Labour's p...

I've just completed a survey on my experience of the Edinburgh Fringe this year.  It was the first time in my life I'd actually got ...

I suspect this will be a popular view in very few quarters, but I have to say I'm delighted to hear the reports that the UK government i...

I've just arrived back from two weeks out of the country, and quite literally the only fragment of information I've had about UK pol...