So.
I have ‘made the decision’ to defer my exams because I am suffering, as the letter from my psychiatrist attests, from a manic disorder. I use the inverted commas advisedly, as I could not make a decision, it being the only option to me. While things are better now because of the medication and the [...]

I’ve been reading Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation. I’d previously seen the film so I thought I should see what it’s based on. The film took a bit of a panning from the critics which I don’t think it altogether deserves. Although the events it is based on are the same, the film, by virtue of [...]

Thomas Fairfax, a Parliamentary general in the English Civil War, said, of the proposal to launch a pre-emptive attack on Scotland:
Human probabilities are not sufficient grounds to make war on a neighbour nation
How little things change. True, Iraq is not a neighbour to Britain, but then the world is a very much smaller place than [...]

On the way from the Committee Rooms (a Committee Room is just someone’s front room taken over on election day to organise canvassing) at Tachbrook Street to my place off Horseferry Road, I walked around Vincent Square. The cricket pitch in the centre is owned by one of the private schools in the area – [...]

With the election just having passed, I cannot help but think that one day Our Glorious Leader will stand down. There does seem to be an opinion that, for good or for ill, TB will have been an important PM. I’m not so sure; I don’t know what the historians are going to say and [...]

Evening all…
Downsian convergence (I believe that’s how you spell it) is the theory that, in a two-party system, parties will tend to the centre.
It has just struck me that the tendency to the centre does not work. Moving to the centre from (say) the left will lose the extreme left. Put another way, where n [...]

Polling Day
I really am like a small child at the moment. I’m telling, from 0700 till 0900 or 1000, for Labour at the Drury Lane polling station. There is, loath as I am to admit it, a certain charm to the process of an election on the day.
The ‘Polling Station’ sign is gaffer taped [...]

So, here are my predictions as of 1630
Overall Labour majority: 85-95
Turnout: 65%
Bethnal and Bow: George Galloway (Respect)
Dorset South: Jim Knight (Labour)
Swing from Labour to Tory: 4%
LibDems will do well in share of vote but will not gain many seats
xD.

Just a quick post:
I’ve found a new brand of tobacco that any serious smoker should consider. It’s called ‘Tor’ and comes in three blends: Turkish, Oriental and Virginian. The only place you can buy (that I’ve found) it is called Bond’s of Oxford Street and is at 330 Oxford Street, just after John Lewis on [...]

I have a confession to make.
I ate at a McDonalds.
Well, I didn’t exactly eat so much as have a milkshake, a comestible which is ingested rather than eaten or drunk. It was tired, I was thirsty, so I purchased something from the Devil’s own fast food ‘restaurant’.
I do find it amusing that they call it [...]