there are six polls being tracked by the bbc website: Communicate, ICM, MORI, NOP, Populus and YouGov
as of lunchtime, all but Communicate have updated to TODAY as final day of polling (data gathered last three days). YouGov, which polls interweb us[…]

i passed a comical young fellow, all hat and badges and incipient bumfluff not-yet-a-moustache, standing in angel on the way to work – he looked quite stressed and lonely, so i guess the polls look bad for his party this year
yes yes the rich […]

OK tonight is the second ever POPTIMISM and here’s what you need to know (some of this you already know)
– It’s at the Polar Bear on Lisle Street Soho between 7 and 2 tonight. Cheap drinks all night.
– It’s an election s[…]

When you have a remarkably bogstandard piece of adventure fantasy (Mothership agane) where the whole thing seems neatly wrapped up in time for the last twenty pages. And then, all of a sudden, there is a revelation, a character goes missing and the q[…]

After 2 hours number taking, I can report a brisk trade in the Blackheath Westcombe ward. Turnout is about 10% after 3 hours – pretty good I’d say. My favourite moment was a 16 year old kid taking me to task as the Labour representative;[…]

Ashley Andel went to an art high school, and reads lots of art and design books, plus he listens to music loads, and reads magazines, lots and lots of magazines, porn, tabloids, art rags, and everything else–he works in a toy store, one of thos[…]

Read all about it. Copies of this will be given away free for the first few paying Poptimism customers tomorrow.[…]

Politics And British Pop, 1979-1990: A CD
Even After Closing Time…

This is the first of two CDs following the threads of British political pop from 1979, the date of Thatcher?s first election victory, to 2005. It is flawed and incomplete, due […]

As if my life wasn’t hard enough, look at what I have to face every morning at Waterloo station. There are rows and rows and rows of the below, stretching into the void like… something that would stretch into a void… like ENDLESS CH[…]

Rob Shearman, the writer of the FANtastic (YMMV) “Dalek” episode of Who gave an online interview to fans shortly after the show went out. He had this to say on the subject of writing speeches for Christopher E
“Well, it was a worry […]