Too much personal bile, not enough objective analysis

THE pool of advisers in Tory HQ must have been salivating at the prospect of the headlines in Monday's Scotsman. Arthur Midwinter, visiting professor at the Institute for Public Sector Finance at Edinburgh University, had just praised the Conservative manifesto, declaring it "transparent and realistic".

Having reviewed all four of the main parties, the Tories had, unexpectedly, come out top.

Surely this was just the sort of good news to be seized upon and exploited? Yet strangely, three days later, there is still not a murmur, no press conferenc...