The Independent bows to the inevitable and will stop its printed edition at the end of March

The Independent bows to the inevitable and will stop its printed edition at the end of March

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Pick of the bunch for me pic.twitter.com/kRK8GNJ99F — Jack Blanchard (@Jack_Blanchard_) February 12, 2016 How long before others go online only? The big media news this lunchtime is that the Indy and Indy on Sunday will stop producing printed editions at Easter but is going to continue in an online form. It had been struggling for some time and has seen a dramatic drop in the number of printed copies sold each day. The I, however, will continue and is…

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Sanders shows biggest weakness in the overnight Democratic Nominee debate: his age

Sanders shows biggest weakness in the overnight Democratic Nominee debate: his age

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< After the massive disappointment for the Hillary campaign in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary it was back to a live TV debate overnight with the 74 year old victor in the primary, socialist Bernie Sanders. In the aftermath of New Hampshire Andy Burnham (remember him?) Tweeted that he knew how Hillary felt that morning. The big difference is that the former LAB cabinet minister is no Clinton and attempting to compare with her made him look presumptuous and foolish. The...

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Tonight’s local by-election line-up has 3 LAB defences and an LD one

Tonight’s local by-election line-up has 3 LAB defences and an LD one

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Crompton (Lab defence) on Bolton Result of council at last election (2015): Labour 39, Conservatives 15, Liberal Democrats 3, UKIP 3 (Labour majority of 18) Result of ward at last election (2014): Labour 2,363 (60%), UKIP 826 (21%), Conservative 456 (12%), Liberal Democrat 148 (4%), Independent 121 (3%) Candidates duly nominated: Bilkis Bashir-Ismali (Lab), Laura Diggle (Green), Paul Eccles (UKIP), Ryan Haslam (Con), Garry Veevers (Lib Dem) In the 2004 local elections something quite remarkable happened in Bolton, the Liberal…

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The Doctors dispute: Betting opens on whether Hunt will survive

The Doctors dispute: Betting opens on whether Hunt will survive

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As the Junior Doctor furore continues, bookmakers William Hill have opened a market on whether Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt will still be in his role on January 1, 2017. He is odds-on to survive in the job and the bookie quotes odds of 8/11 that he is still in post on Jan 1, 2017. It is evens that he will leave the position before that date. The polling suggests that Hunt is finding it hard to take…

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The New Hampshire aftermath: This week’s PB/Polling Matters TV Show looks at where the race stands now

The New Hampshire aftermath: This week’s PB/Polling Matters TV Show looks at where the race stands now

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Where does the battle for Obama’s successor stand now? Although the outcome in both the Republican and Democratic races in the New Hampshire primary was completely in line with the polls the results have come as a massive shock. One thing’s for sure – previous assumptions about how US elections work don’t apply any more and we look forward with a great degree of uncertainty. This was also the biggest political betting event since the UK General Election last May….

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LEAVE moves into lead for 1st time in ICM’s EURef tracker

LEAVE moves into lead for 1st time in ICM’s EURef tracker

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Cameron’s “deal” not going down well After a stormy week during which he’s come under sustained attack from the papers that were so supportive last May the latest ICM EURef poll has LEAVE taking the lead for the first time. The figures are. LEAVE 42+3 REMAIN 41-1 This is just one point and a lot narrower than the 9% LEAVE lead that YouGov recently reported but it does reinforce that the general direction is to BREXIT. Of course these were…

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The GOP nomination race is effectively now down to just 5

The GOP nomination race is effectively now down to just 5

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Iowa and New Hampshire have slimmed the GOP field down What a night and what an outcome. The contender who was deemed to have “won” the last debate, Chris Christie failed to make an impact in NH and returned to New Jersey to consider his position. Given that Christie’s final act had been his debate destruction of Rubio only a few days ago it seemed that others benefited from him taking down the one who became favourite after Iowa. Maybe…

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