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Don't get too comfortable

When the thinktank arrived at an impasse, each member would go their separate way, and undertake a different task for two hours. One might do yoga, one might sing whilst washing the dishes, one might get drunk, one might have sex.
Then they would reconvene and retable their arguments, to see if anything had changed. Invariably some things had.
The measure did not necessarily ensure the best outcome, but it reminded them all of the agency of change.

Guy Rundle on Crikey:

'Whatever New Labour was, and there will be time for that analysis soon, it has gone, gone utterly, leaving much and perhaps taking more.

When it began, in 1997, 911 was the US emergency number, terror was a bomb in Omagh, waterboarding was a beach sport and extraordinary rendition was Celine Dion’s take on ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’. '

'The Lib Dems, aiming to secure as many as 70 seats, were still confident that the Nick Clegg surge would see many more northern Labour citadels fall than the exit poll indicated. The Lib Dems held Torbay, suggesting that they were holding off the Tory advance in the south-west.'
-The Guardian

General election as mediaeval war fantasy, hmm?