European elections. Thur 4 June. Brussels isn’t like Westminster. For one thing, the expense accounts are bigger. For another, it’s actually possible for small parties to get elected. London already has MEPs from UKIP and the Greens. When, tomorrow, the city elects the eight people …
As promised, our American expats Julie Palmer-Hoffman and Chris Osburn cover the US election. 5.16am – And we’re spent. Goodnight, London. And thanks for hanging with us this evening (and well into the morning). 5.15am – Notes from the peanut gallery: that was a freaking …
The Gordon Brown statue saga has intrigued psephologists and, er, wax-ologists for months now: would our embattled PM be given his own waxwork at Madame Tussauds, or have the curators bargained that, with the odds of his removal ever-shortening, the task of crafting those craggy …
Our lonely PM’s glowering grimace doesn’t lend itself easily to sympathy, but it would take a heart as hard as granite (or Granita, even) not to feel for Gordon Brown’s plight. Having spent ten years waiting for the top job, in just ten months of …
The course of true democracy never did run smooth, as proved at some hapless polling stations in yesterday’s election fever. We say fever… it was more like a mild sweat. Polling officials in Barnet were certainly sweating when their ballot papers didn’t turn up on …
The day has finally arrived. After months of campaigning, it’s finally your turn to have your say and elect a London Mayor for the next 4 years. And not only that, as was highlighted yesterday, there are some other things you need to make your …
Londoners are all hot and bothered over the exact voting procedure they will be faced with in the mayoral election, according to the Evening Standard. The use of the second preference system appears to be causing some puzzlement, with 30% of those surveyed by the …
Muddled in the mind about who you’re going to vote for in the upcoming Mayoral elections? The Vote Match website will help you out. You’re asked to agree or disagree with 25 statements, and then indicate the issues that matter most to you. Vote Match …
With voting now closed for the Bloggies 2008 we’re sitting on the edge of our un-ergonomic seats awaiting the results (the awards ceremony will be held at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, USA on Monday, March 10 with the results posted …
Thanks to a concerned reader, we were alerted today to a potential tragedy in the making. It seems that the folks over in Monopoly Land are holding an online vote to choose the world’s top twenty cities (in addition to two wild cards) for its …
If you were wandering around Bayswater last night and wondering why you were surrounded by several thousand Americans, it’s not because we started granting political asylum to those seeking refuge from the Bush regime (a bit late for that, really). No, it’s because last night, …
