A s ever, among all the noise triggered by Labour holding the seat of Holborn and St Pancras, the most plain-spoken and undeniable analysis was provided by that sage and national treasure John Curtice, of Strathclyde University.
The young people of colour in the pinched neighbourhood of Somers Town – the urban village right next to Euston station – who were all voting Green, and talked of Gaza and the impossibility of living in our capital.
The rurality and climate-fear in the villages that surround us chimes with Ellie Chowns’s seemingly out-of-the-blue election two years ago as the Green MP for North Herefordshire and Adrian Ramsay’s success in the East Anglian seat of Waveney Valley.
They also write, very perceptively, about an “exhausted majority” tired of our shrill politics, and suggest the “depolarisation” of the climate issue in the face of plain facts – which sounds like the direct opposite of how Polanski operates.
Andy Burnham’s party, with a majority of 3,364, he said, showed they “are in a much better position than they were six months ago, but st.