Four days after an extraordinary General Election which produced a surprise, if tiny, Conservative majority, normality is being restored remarkably quickly in the household of 2 political journalists where I still find myself. All expectation of inter-party negotiation behind closed doors has come to nothing and this sudden rush of single party government has produced […]

The last week has gone so quickly and with the general election approaching I am back in London supporting the political journalists – daughter and son-in-law – for whom working days of 19 hours have become the rule rather than the exception and whose home is as often as not a bed in a hotel […]