Gloomy as the headlines may be, here are some reasons to look on the bright side.
Turnout was disastrously low – further harming a good policy.
The winner will hope to inherit his 23,336 majority, too.
Cllr Fran Whymark won out in a close race.
Britain’s political decision-making, our culture and our institutions have been compromised or paralysed in the face of Islamist extremism.
The first glimpse of the insurgents’ 2015 manifesto suggests a risky willingness to be all things to all men. It could backfire.
Has Miliband’s obsession with his conference speech cost Labour weeks of potential campaigning time?
The long-standing ConHome contributor is one of a series of newly chosen candidates.
GPs who prescribe unnecessary antibiotics just to stop patients nagging them are putting all our lives at risk.
A proper Treasury cost-benefit analysis of our EU membership would put this untruth down for good.
Now it’s France and Germany whose economies are in trouble, not just the Southern nations.
The slogans and acts of the 1930s echo outside Costa Coffee and Primark, and creep their way across Facebook and Twitter.
Apparently saying he would fire rockets into Israel didn’t bring his party into disrepute. What on earth would?
Better Together declares it doesn’t need any more donations, and the Conservatives trounce Labour in the party stakes.