As of five days ago, people in the USA, beginning with the state of Wyoming, will be voting for the next President; absentee ballots are accepted in Wyoming from forty days before the general election.
Following a decision by the Ohio Supreme Court, voters in that state, where absentee voting is possible from today, will be [...]

I would urge any Labour party members connected with the City of London to heed this appeal from City of London BLP secretary (and NEC member) Peter Kenyon:
This is a call to all Labour Party members and supporters working in the City of London. City of London Labour Party would like to hear from you.
The [...]

I mentioned the Tatler Ten a little while ago. Imagine my surprise to tune into the Tory party conference to see Jeremy Brier on stage, having a chat with Alan Duncan, George Osborne and someone I didn’t recognise, only to then see Kulveer Ranger appear in the next segment.
xD.

“We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself,” -
Republican Party Platform, 2008.

The 507 (Wikipedia, TfL) and 521 (Wikipedia, TfL) are going to be the first London bus routes to have the bendy bus removed. This is going to make my commute into work longer. Bendy buses have attracted a lot of opprobrium; read on to find out why they’re actually a really good idea.

The 507 and [...]

Yes, they’re very representative of Britain today. Half went to Oxford or Cambridge, eight went to university. Six grew up in London or the Home Counties. Four of the eight PPCs are standing for London seats and the other four are standing in the southern half of England. They are the Tatler Ten.
Tatler (via [...]

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been taken into ‘conservatorship’. I’m no expert, but the issuing of new, common stock to the federal government and the drop in value of existing stock means that, effectively, Fannie and Freddie have been nationalised, albeit on a temporary basis. The Congressional Budget Office has apparently said that the [...]

Chris ‘Stumbling and Mumbling’ Dillow asks five questions. Here are my answers; number two is the best. I’ve put Chris’s questions in italics.
1. The government wants children to learn about the slave trade. But in 18th century England, how much different were the living conditions of the average slave from those of the average unskilled [...]

I wrote on the first of April of this year about provisions in the Counter-Terrorism Bill for restricting the openness of inquests. It seems that it wasn’t just me who was concerned about some of the proposals; the Guardian reports that section 64 is under fire1:
A cross-party committee of peers, including a former lord chief [...]

From the Guardian:
The French anti-immigrant party, the National Front – campaign slogan: Keep France for the French – is selling its prestigious Paris headquarters to a Chinese university, it was reported today.

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