Thursday, April 16/2015

Pick up train tickets at Liverpool Street Station. There is so much construction going on around the station that it's hard to identify the old landmarks, made somewhat worse by the fact that I'm no longer carrying "real" maps and the ipad doesn't do well with sunlight. Actually much worse than the Playbook. Between them Apple and Blackberry could have made a hell of a good tablet, had it been in either of their interests to co-operate.

Second election debate on tv tonight, this time with only opposition leaders. Milliband unhappy at being attacked from the left and avoiding any suspicion that his strings would be pulled by Sturgeon. Farage isolated on the right and voicing almost certainly unworthy suspicions about the demographics of the independently balanced audience. Nicola Sturgeon bluntly telling Milliband, who can't afford to be seen listening, that he needs her co-operation to shut out Cameron. And then there are those who are conspicuous by their absence - Cameron, who may have made a mistake in opting out, and Clegg, who must be pretty unhappy about being classed as government and not opposition for the purpose.