All that money, all the fawning press coverage, and all the enthusiasm of all those party activists, and Young Dave still couldn’t get the T...

Nobody who has any handle on the business dealings of Mohammed “You can call me Al” Fayed will be in the least surprised that he has sold Ha...

So last night’s exit poll as declared by the Beeb just after the polls closed at 2200 hours has been shown to be pretty accurate: it reckone...

Now it’s official: there is going to be a Hung Parliament. Young Dave and his jolly good chaps are 36 short of a Commons majority, with 35 s...

Boundary changes could have altered the makeup of the constituency – this was the first time that they had come into play – but Labour have ...

Voting can be a humbling diversion. You quickly realise that this is a process where there is genuine equality, from the highest of flyers t...

And so we come to the day of decision: the opinion polls have stopped coming, the campaigning is over, and all that remains is the exercisin...

On the way over to Asda this afternoon, a voice called out to me. Perhaps this was a sign that the election campaign had at last dared show ...

There is, today, the usual last minute campaigning going on, and in Young Dave’s case, it was going on all through last night as well. But t...

While much media attention is being focused on wall to wall General Election coverage, events have been unfolding in the world of football, ...

For those not happy with the reporting of wall to wall sunshine in Lisbon, I have to also note that this was accompanied yesterday by a pret...

The mildly interesting news on the weather front here in Lisbon is that yesterday’s mix of white cloud and sunny intervals has gone. The eve...

You pays your money and you takes your choice. The sentiment is no different in and around Lisbon, especially when it comes to the most leis...

Why does the England football team have yet another foreign manager? Well, the stick handed out by the fourth estate to every home grown occ...

The tram network in Lisbon is a shadow of the system of half a century ago – before the city’s Metro began operation. Only five routes remai...

Today the city of Lisbon is quiet, even for a Sunday: yesterday’s holiday celebrations and all the rest seem to have worn out many of the lo...

The headlines say it all: “Bank Holiday Washout”. I am momentarily concerned, so stroll over to the window of my room at the Borges Chiado ....

Anyone who looks in on Zelo Street with any regularity knows that I’m an aficionado of Comedy Central’s Daily Show . So when a Tory cheerlea...

It’s a popular myth that, when rail travel is disrupted in the UK as engineering works take precedence, this kind of thing just doesn’t happ...

While most eyes will have been on Greece – because that’s where the news is coming from – the first day of May has not been without incident...