1. Mark Pack explains why Conservative candidates are the happiest! 2. PJC Journal on the politician who is unelected, illegitimate and unwanted. 3. TP Party Lines blog on the Top 100 Political Journalists. 4. Letters From a Tory feels sorry for Harriet..

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For the second year running, Total Politics has conducted it's Top 100 Journalists poll , asking its readers, MPs and journalists themselves to vote. 1. (+3) Nick Robinson 2. (-1) Evan Davis 3. (-1) Jeremy Paxman 4. (+9) Adam Boulton 5. (+18) Eddie...

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I may be in Tunbridge Wells today but I am sure I can hear the sound of champagne corks popping in Cowley Street, Westminster. The Electoral Commission has just announced that the £2.4 million donation by convicted fraudster Michael Brown's Fifth...

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No offence to Baroness Ashton and Mr Rumpy Pumpy, but seriously, is that the best they can do? And I mean that in a caring way...

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If you were a teacher, would you seriously think about taking pupils on a school trip? With all the 'lef & safety' provisions that now exist you'd have to be either brave or stupid to take kids on the kind of foreign trips and geography...

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