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Let's move on from The Vow.. pic.twitter.com/j1J9AmmbkV — The Daily Record (@Daily_Record) September 21, 2015 I like the Daily Record’s reference to the famous Daily Record front page before the InyRef a year ago with the headline “The vow”. As I mentioned in my last post I’ve been driving back from the South of France and only this afternoon did I start to catch up with the story. Nobody really knows whether this is true or not or whether there…

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With 40% of the vote counted, Alexis Tsipras seems set to return to power #GreekElections http://t.co/eQq0yeeojq pic.twitter.com/fMkl9plHCN — The Economist (@TheEconomist) September 20, 2015

Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen on Caerphilly (Lab defence) Result: Labour 1,002 (47% -14%), Plaid Cymru 509 (24% +14%), Douglas (Independent, nominated as UKIP) 223 (11%, no candidate in 2012), Dew (Independent) 184 (9%), Conservatives 109 (5%, no candidate in 2012), Davies (Independent) 106 (5%) Labour HOLD with a majority of 493 (23%) on a swing of 14% from Labour to Plaid Cymru * Independent vote in by-election 513 (25%), Independent vote in 2012 (29%). Change: -4%

Crosskeys on Caerphilly (Lab defence) Result: Labour 354 (51% -4%), Plaid Cymru 179 (26% +13%), United Kingdom Independence Party 166 (24%, no candidate in 2012) Labour HOLD with a majority of 175 (25%) on a swing of 8.5% from Labour to Plaid Cymru Glasbury on Powys (Con defence) Result: Liberal Democrats 457 (44%, no candidate in 2012), Conservatives 415 (40% -15%), Independent 106 (10% -23%), Green Party 52 (5%, no candidate in 2012) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative with a…

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Hi All, It’s Robert (rcs1000) here, and I’m using the Politicalbetting soapbox to promote a venture that OGH and I are involved in: Crowdscores. The goal of Crowdscores is to crowdsource sports data. So, instead of buying offical data from Opta, we get fans at the game (or watching TV) to tell us what the score is, who scored etc. We’re getting a lot of traction with this model: more than 10,000 people use our app each week, and it…

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Maybe Hillary could face a serious challenge after all for the Democratic nominationhttp://t.co/lRRnsR2eoM pic.twitter.com/yydhCSFdZz — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 1, 2015 This could really shake up the WH2016 betting As I posted ten days ago a bet at 4/1 that someone other than Hillary would get the nomination was great value and I have a big position. Potential contenders have until now been overawed by the Hillary factor. But if one big player like Biden enters the fray then others…

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Mill Hill on Blackburn with Darwen (Lab defence) Result: Labour 505 (59% -7%), United Kingdom Independence Party 179 (21%, no candidate in 2012), Conservatives 106 (12% -6%), Liberal Democrats 69 (8% -7%) Labour HOLD with a majority of 326 (38%) on a swing of 14% from Labour to United Kingdom Independence Party New Tredegar on Caerphilly (Lab defence) Result: Labour 648 (83% unchanged), United Kingdom Independence Party 90 (11%, no candidate in 2012), Conservatives 47 (6%, no candidate in 2012)…

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