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Sound a klaxon! Bang a drum! Shake a rattle, for it is 2024 and somebody has actually started a blog. The good people of blogger.com will be beside themselves with excitement that this has happened, as I can only assume that nobody has done such a thing since before most of them joined the workforce.

I have bad news, though, for their annual bonus. This blog is going to be for one night only: election night 2024. As has been my custom for every general election from 2010 onwards, I will be staying up through the night and will be live-blogging the whole affair, watching a range of TV coverage and pontificating about everything from the BBC's choice of graphics to the fact that any constituency I haven't heard of must be made up on the night.

It may not become a source of deep political insight, but for the night of 4-5 July 2024, this blog will make fun of politicians standing in empty sports halls, journalists desperately trying to stir up interest in drone footage of cars, and campaigners repeating slogans while their careers die behind their eyes.

So, please come back here then, and join the fun.

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