I'm glued to my monitor. The Guardian has a rolling blog and the best graphic of the results I've seen so far -- love the rotten fish. I've also read what Nate Silver over at fivethirtyeight.com has to say -- as a statistician, I appreciate that he speaks in probabilities, rarely drawing conclusions from the date he's putting out, but just ( Read more... )

...put on a suit to go on a court visit to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. I planned to leaflet commuters with Green Party material for half an hour on my way ( Read more... )

I heartily support smoking bans, but then they hit nargile cafes! How to solve ( Read more... )

Susannah and I received our ballots for the EU Parliamentary elections today so I thought I'd do a PSA. Obviously it's primarily for Europeans, but it's short, and I suspect some non-Europeans may be interested anyway ( Read more... )

Voting is a laborious task when you're overseas. I still haven't managed to find a working telephone number for the Canadian Consulate. Guess I'll have to hoof it there sometime... soon.... June 28th approaches fast ( Read more... )