How Britain’s Political parties still campaign in an age of steam

The county council elections are upon us. Ed Miliband goes on a soapbox, leaflets are pushed through doors, canvassers turn up on doorsteps and people are supposed to rush to polling stations. How brilliantly nineteenth century when  Gladstone and Disraeli drew crowds of thousands or even early twentieth when  Churchill (then a Liberal like Clegg) […]

Election Campaign:What the politicians and civil servants didn’t tell us

The election is virtually over. Tomorrow  you can cast your vote.  The parties will concentrate on their key messages over the last hours before polling day. But have all the issues been covered? No way.   Just as there is a black hole in all the parties’ planned spending cuts, there are lots of issues […]

Whitehall’s censorship of farming subsidies spares Tories (and UKIP’s) blushes

Over the bank holiday weekend senior civil servants running the country took an extraordinary decision to ban the public  from seeing  information because  they thought it was so controversial that it would disrupt election campaigning. They decided to protect candidates from being asked questions on the issue and thought it best the public be left […]