If that e-mail snooping thing goes through in its current form there won't be a Liberal Democrats any more. The party's base has mostly held together through the coalition but a lot of it will just walk away after this ( Read more... )

There’s plenty of comment elsewhere in the blogosphere on David Cameron’s first serious intervention in the Scottish referendum debate, some of it very good indeed. So there’s no need to labour any of those points.
Perhaps more interesting is who is and who isn’t correct on both the technicalities and the ethics of how Scotland might declare ( Read more... )

Much as I loathe Paul Staines and all he stands for, and much as I think divining too much from polls 15 months into a 4 year government is a mug's game, I don't think there's too much wrong with this analysis on order-order.com...