Out tanvassing
TIME to introduce a whole new election phenomena that you might not be aware of: The Can-Tan. It can only be explained as the reddening or browning of a fair-skinned [...]
Jo Shaw
Where does tactical voting end?
THE thought of Tories being urged to vote tactically for the Liberal Democrats in Islington South – a strategic operation to remove Labour’s Emily Thornberry has [...]
There won’t be another hustings like this..
YOU sir, in the hat.. what would you like to ask the candidates? It was a shame the statue of Sir John Betjeman at St Pancras International could not come to life. He would [...]
Frank, George, Jo, Natalie and Betjeman
SO many hustings, so little time.. it’s impossible to get to them all. Still, there is something attractive about hustings under the roof of St Pancras International [...]
Unmask this tribal, bankrupt brute
FORMER New Statesman editor John Kampfner and Shadow MP Jo Shaw teamed up to kick off the final furlong in her battle to cause an election night shock and unseat Frank [...]
Dame Joan Bakewell: It’s Frank for me
WITH a dab of gloom about Labour and Conservative foreign policy, Dame Joan Bakewell explains today why her cross will end up in Labour MP Frank Dobson’s box in Holborn [...]
PS. What about the 7/2 ladies?
QUICKIE: If you did check the political odds while betting on the gee-gees today, you will have found at Ladbrokes that Glenda Jackson is given the same chance of winning in [...]
The YouTube war: Holborn and St Pancras
NEVER mind Twitter anyhow, what of YouTube? Frank Dobson hasn’t bothered – but my oh my, why has it taken me so long to find these little beauties from his [...]
Confused Clegg?
SPEAKING of the Liberal Democrat tilt at Hampstead and Kilburn, the party’s famous leaflet factory has fired out another despatch. This time it’s a personal [...]
Moving forward?
SHADOW MP Jo Shaw has been pretty dogged in her pursuit of Labour’s Holborn and St Pancras MP Frank Dobson ahead of this year’s general election (in May, yeah?). [...]