Election diary: a tax on disco music, a levy on punctuation - and VAT terror stalking rural England

We're halfway and it's time to analyse the best comedy offerings among the general election campaigns, with special mentions for the PM and Ed Davey If you see a guy trying to pogo-stick along a trapeze while arguing for an overhaul of capital gains tax, think twice before calling the authorities - it's ­probably Ed Davey. The Lib Dem leader has so far talked tactical ­voting in a fairground teacup and endured an assault course in Tunbridge Wells. We knew the Tories were ­worried about the Li...