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Dance music journalism always had a problem with a lack of proper criticism. It's not down to amateurs being swayed by PR so much as the writers also being DJs and the DJs also being record producers and the record producers also being label owners and the label owners also being writers. No...

I will never doubt you again.

Different times, different political culture. In 92, people were thinking of tax bombshells – they were voting Tory out of fear and self-interest. Now there's a lot of visceral hatred of Labour. They crashed the economy, the mess they left us in blah blah blah (not to mention the millions of...

I have, but not enough to form an overall impression (this election has coincided with my busiest period of freelancing for 2 years). I'm surprised by your data scepticism. The value, it seems to me, is not in isolated polls but in the average. Even the phone polls (which have had Lab about...

From what I read, the 'shy Tory' vote hasn't been a thing since 1992 – not just less so, but not at all . Peter Kellner even maintains it wasn't a thing then, but that pollsters were all basing weightings on 1981 census and hadn't taken proper account of the rise in well-off manual workers. But...

True, and it's not helpful. But if you were to map people who talk about endlessly immigration (Ukip, Migration Watch, the tabloids) against terrible ignorant racists, you'd have a near-exact overlap.

Rugby It's your South Wales showing.

This year's Golden Deerstalker For Inspired Detective Work goes to the still unnamed officer who, a Sunday Times front page revealed in November, nicked Alastair Campbell and questioned him in connection with the Jill Dando murder inquiry. What inspired this arrest was the 1999 Diary item about...

Good God! Built like a rugby player and a celeb Tory to boot.

Is the alleged Dando connection to the alleged Elm Tree scandal a new thing? The crux has been whirling around for a while, but this is the third time I've seen her name crop up - all of them within the last month.

I've bookmarked - lots of praise on my Facebook fwiw, amid a few accusations of indie snobbery.

No, nothing remotely wrong about this. It's a perfectly legitimate response which doesn't make them look like a petty-minded bunch of bullies who can't take hard questions. And absolutely not nationalists.

Priceless. Think we can guess who leaked that story to Private Eye at the time.

From what I've seen the charges have been mostly pathetic (e.g. the John Lewis one), with one half-exception of that RBS thing (which I can't fully comment on cos couldn't make out NR's voice on video, but note a few people making similar point as him at the time). The absurd over-reaction and...

He picked the easy targets. The assailing of the BBC was a disgrace. But that's Nats for you.

Yeah, I'm having this exact argument elsewhere as we speak, so can't be bothered duplicating too much. But always good to see George Monbiot holding forth on elites and gilded circles ;) (I assume it's Monbiot, I've not clicked).

There'll be a narrow No vote, though perhaps slightly less narrow than people think (54-46 ish). Then we'll spend the next 10 years hearing representatives of English nationalism bleat on about how we're the true oppressed of the United Kingdom. 'English devolution' (i.e. excluding Scots, NI...

Yeah, this one. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/11083111/How-The-Sun-is-shining-for-the-First-Minister.html

No. Or at least, not mainly. Currency strength is a good indicator of economic strength. And if investors think your economy is weak and your currency tumbles, you're either self-sufficient or you're fucked on import prices. At least that's my (very, very) layman's understanding. edit: I'm...

Krugman on the currency question. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/opinion/paul-krugman-scots-what-the-heck.html?_r=4