All That Is Solid ...

Here we go, here we go.

There was something for almost everyone.

This quarter 158,122 votes were cast in 82 local authority contests.

This month saw 48,753 votes cast in 20 local authority contests.

Two belated-but-brief points on the Holborn and St Pancras. 1.

More warm weather incoming, so let's have another blast of a summery tune.

It seemed like yesterday when the towers fell.

Without a doubt this has been the worst week in Reform's short history.

I read with interest that, on Monday afternoon, Andy Burnham appointed Marc Sears as his special advisor.

And what a brief month it was!

Nothing gets the juices moving more than indulging in irrelevancies.

This month saw 33,925 votes cast in 16 local authority contests.

Capitalism is a class system, and in recent years billionaires and their retainers have grown more brazen in asserting this basic social fact.

Across the land, grass has withered and died under the relentless glare of the burning sun.

Time for the monthly duty post!

This month saw 75,444 votes cast in 46 local authority contests.

From Andy Burnham's point of view, he couldn't have asked for a better week.

A new dawn has broken has it not?

My book haul brings all the boys to the yard, so it's time we had another.

Nigel Farage has used every opportunity to fabricate a persecution complex.

"This is 4D chess!!"

If you're sparing a thought for Nigel Farage this Sunday, his exposed links to a convicted fraudster are likely to colour them.

The Birmingham bin strike has been rolling on for 18 months, and the workers - organised by Unite - have long suspected that the council's refusal to negotiate and willingness to throw money at breaking the strike, more than it would have cost to have set…

Another scorching month!

There was one occasion during Keir Starmer's leadership that I felt a frisson of hope.

Everywhere you turn, there's advice pouring from every media orifice.

This quarter 289,878 votes were cast in 110 local authority contests.

This month saw 98,917 votes cast in 43 local authority contests.

I felt many emotions seeing Keir Starmer announce his resignation outside Downing Street on Monday morning.

Belated congratulations to Andy Burnham.