The UK is currently very political, there’s a lot of politics going on at the moment, in spite of the quiet life that people like Brenda from Bristol¹ might desire.

It’s not without good reason. The Conservatives had until January 2025 to call a General Election (one of the few powers that is currently, entirely under the Prime Minister’s control) and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak² surprised everybody, not least of all his own party, by calling an election for July 4th.

Enter crazy speculation, polls, betting, hopes, dreams, dirty tricks, gaffs; and everything else that contributes to a General Election campaign in the United Kingdom.

I’m quite politically engaged. I follow the party press conferences, revel in reading the manifestos, and I’m willing to be convinced of viewpoints or ideas that I’ve hitherto not encountered, or which I might hold a different view on. I am not a typical voter in the UK, which is traditionally a very apathetic and disinterested country, when it comes to the electoral process³.

All that is to say that this (incredibly low-traffic) blog will temporarily shift a lot of its content to some opinionated drivel around the promises, lies, and bombastardy of the UK General Election.

Articles focused on politics will be prefixed as such in the title, feel free to ignore them.