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From Channel Four yesterday evening I learned of a dam failure that flooded Sheffield and the loss of an airship over the Humber. It's amazing what you learn watching the right programmes.

Robert Kilroy-Silk, the man who destroyed his media career with racist comments in his newspaper column clearly inhabits a strange and different world to the rest of us. On May 6th, he released a vengeful press release against this former party UKIP quoting the BBC 'UKIP, shorn of its most high-profile campaigner Robert Kilroy-Silk, has lost its deposits in at least 451 seats - costing it about £225,500' Then on May 8th we had 'it is evident that UKIP and Veritas are – almost under the radar – making steady gains in a hostile electoral ...

Elections force a certain kind of madness upon us. I am glad that the 2005 election is now over. I am encouraged by the growth in support for the Liberal Democrats. Although the Conservatives saw a very small rise in their overall level of support, they have clearly not made anything like the kind of progress that puts them into contention for an election in 2009-2010. Thus micahel Howard has decided to quit. Meanwhile the Prime Minister is under attack from his own side. The Liberal Democrats made progress. 62 MPs is a good haul, although I am saddened by ...

The days after a General Election are traditionally those that lend themselves to post-mortems. In recent years it seems that leadership crises are also in fashion during this part of the electoral cycle.Michael Howard has already announced that he is going as soon as the method of electing a successor has been changed so that the Tories can avoid selecting somebody unsuitable for the fourth time of asking. Plaid Cymru are still debating whether they have a leader or not and if so, whether they want to continue in that vein. The only leader who seems to be staying put ...