Meanwhile, Scotland is perhaps the most disruptive force in modern British electoral history.
In this marginal seat on the Thames estuary, Team Jackie take to an open-top bus in an attempt to foil UKIP and Labour, and Farage gains a Hitler moustache.
On the day David Cameron visited Belfast, Bhogal tried to persuade people in Banbridge that it is possible to move beyond ancient quarrels.
In which I go campaigning with Grant Shapps’s brainchild, which has mobilised thousands of activists who would probably not have joined their local associations.
Even with the economy on the up, approval ratings have remained stubbornly low.
The campaign is impoverished and the electorate insulted by the refusal of the main party leaders to talk about a new settlement for the United Kingdom.
Politics is “a noble calling”. And in praise of Abraham Lincoln, Edmund Burke and Louis Armstrong.
Gove’s drive to extend to the state sector the freedoms enjoyed by fee-paying schools should be extended to allow academic selection.
Cllr Lumley joins the Conservatives – to help defeat UKIP and their “cheap sound bites”.
And other fun and serious ideas from the first declared candidate for the Conservative nomination for the London Mayoralty
After all, they deserve a vote – and they can be trusted with one too.
A probe of a key question as the election approaches. How big are the spending reductions that each major party requires?
Among the lessons: that the two main parties are on the slide, and that Labour aren’t immune from UKIP.
Plus the results of my focus groups in Brighton and Solihull, including: if each party leader were a car, what car would they be?