And so it comes to this. I've slept in my office a few times...when I was a student...and I'd just moved out of one house and not yet moved into another. I didn't feel particularly dignified. But then I wasn't...

Once again a last minute strike on London Underground will cost the private sector millions of pounds in lost time. The routine of millions of hard working individuals is disrupted because of the excessive claims from a few thousand overpaid...

As was widely predicted, the centre-left Dilma Rousseff has won the second round of the Brazilian Presidential election with 56% of the vote. She will be sworn in at the Alvarado Palace in Brasilia on January 1st. The Presidential election...

Another election, another round of irrationality about polling. On this site there has been any amount of attacks on YouGov, including a suggestion from one commenter that Conservative activists would soon be suing us. The last time we saw this...

Mark Field is MP for Cities of London and Westminster. There has been furious activity in recent days amongst the ConHome community with claim and counterclaim about the extent of the cuts. So just how severe can we expect today’s...

Further to Graeme's piece, I note that his point about the foolishness of weighting last and first choices equally has two components. The first might be called the "assumption of equal caring" and is more complicated and more contentious that...

Dear Sir/Madam/Other, (Please excuse the ambiguity, but the civil service doesn’t know the number of transgender MPs, and I know this is a driving concern in certain sections of Government right now.) Recent press reports show that your organisation is...

If you have concerns over the way Short Money is handled, and if you have bunnies over the public funding of pan-EU political parties, look away now. A new paper from the TaxPayers’ Alliance out today reviews a lesser-known angle:...

Charlie Bean, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, wants to cap mortgages to value. By the Bank’s diktat borrowers would have to put down a deposit of between 10% and 25% when they buy a house. Perhaps this is...

Those advocates of preferential voting for UK General Elections should take note of what is going on Down Under in the previously safe Tasmanian Labor seat of Denison. It's a simple point: the independent candidate Andrew Wilkie who came THIRD...