Andrew Neil reports a poll in which 83% said that in the event of a hung parliament the party with the most votes should form a government, and 51% said that the party with the most seats should form a government. So at least one third hold contradictory opinions simultaneously (or, more likely, they're answering on the basis of some idea that the ( Read more... )

Anyone who can, put the BBC election coverage on. Maybe just because he's ready for his nap, Paxman has become even more of a parody of himself than he usually is, barking questions and getting none of the answers he wants. Boris Johnson and Alex Salmond have both wiped the floor with him in the last hour ( Read more... )

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After a string of terror plots from Tyneside, here's what you won't read in the papers:

Martin Amis condemns the abject failure of Geordies to denounce terrorism.

"Sick-making" display, as Gordon Brown "promises NE jobs will be safest" under Labour government.

MEP calls for Europe-wide ban on T-shirts after the end of September.

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Andrew Neil was asking what Brown might have said in the car the second time, after apologising to Gillian Duffy in front of the world's media.

I reckon: E pur si muove.

Is it bad that Superfast Jellyfish reminded me that I haven't had breakfast yet?

Mmm, frosted delights.

Programmers! Persuade your manager to get you this software, and you can never again be told that you have no use for more/larger/higher-resolution monitors ( Read more... )

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"Lots of young men who come from possibly disadvantaged backgrounds, don't have much education, are suddenly given millions of pounds, the opportunity to buy everything, including women. Of course that is corrupting and of course these people aren't very well able to handle it." - Michael Portillo, This Week, 4th February ( Read more... )