By Bagehot
BAGEHOT is on the campaign trail, watching the nation’s most dedicated political activists trying to argue the merits and flaws of the Alternative Vote (AV), the slightly convoluted electoral system that will be put to the British public in a referendum on May 5th. More political thoughts will follow in the print column, but as I leaf through my notebook on a train back from Manchester, I bow my head before the campaigners of both camps tasked with trying to explain this thing.