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This month saw 22,173 votes cast in 10 local authority contests. All percentages are rounded to the nearest single decimal place. Eight coun...

Cor blimey, with the blink of an eye April is gone and with it a third of the year. How cruel it is that time passes faster the older you ge...

Imagine an alternative 1980s. The economy is going gang busters as Britain booms with unheard-of levels of prosperity. On top of this, the m...

Another week has rolled by and Keir Starmer is still Prime Minister. The Peter Mandelson affair grinds on, with a vote of inquiry into whet...

Last weekend, I almost wrote about how Keir Starmer was looking safe despite the coming catastrophe of losing Wales and getting wiped out in...

Orban's gone, but so has Orbanism? Sunday's election results must be beyond Péter Magyar's wildest dreams. 138 seats, well over ...

Following the war on Iran and Trump's usual erratic comments , another round of "the President is senile!" has ripped through ...

Thanks to not feeling it writing-wise lately, I've accumulated loads of (mostly vintage) science fiction paperbacks since the last post ...

Trump's dire threats to obliterate Iran, as we know, did not come to pass this time . Instead, we had the pattern we've now grown a...

"A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will." Th...