Theresa May’s decision to call a snap election was "a blunder of historic proportions", Exeter University's Head of History has said. With one result still to declare the 2017 General Election has resulted in a hung parliament with the Conservatives falling well short of the 326 seats needed to win. May will now look to form a government with Northern Ireland's DUP, which is a disastrous outcome given that the initial remit was to significantly increase David Cameron's majority. Professor...

Of all the pictures to emerge from last night's election coverage perhaps the most poignant was one of Theresa May stood next to a black knight as she awaited her constituency results in Maidenhead. For fans of Monty Python she had become the embodiment of the knight who stands legless and armless and insists it "tis but a scratch". The election which was meant to return a comfortable majority for her had failed to return a majority at all, with...

Like most things in life, the simplest restaurant dishes are generally the endearingly memorable. So it's hardly surprising that the ingenuous bone marrow salad at St John in Clerkenwell has been on the menu, unchanged, for the past 23 years. In turn, when presenting paying customers with something so simple, it's crucial that each element (no matter how trivial) is as near perfect as possible. Most of London's absolute worst dishes, in fact, are over complicated marriages of ingredients that...

Early reports have suggested that the number of 18-24 year-olds voting in the General Election has jumped from 43 per cent in 2015 to 72 per cent in this year's snap election. A surge in registrations to vote was noted in the run-up to the election but it was unclear how many would turn out on the day. As it was there was a phenomenal turnaround on 2015's number, with an estimated 72 per cent of young people casting their vote...

Working out which vaccinations you need to get, for which parts of the world can be an absolute minefield. The World Health Organisation’s guidelines are complex and confusing. Even if you’ve successfully discovered that, a trip to, Burkina Faso for example, requires you to get vaccinated for malaria, you then have to work out which strain of malaria is prevalent in which regions of Burkina Faso, and then cross-reference that with the region of the country you will be visiting....

Of all the search queries you thought you might be typing in this morning I bet "who are the DUP" was certainly not one of them. Granted it is part of the wider quandary of "what comes next", but with just hours after the first results have landed the most likely outcome of the 2017 snap election is that the Tories will band together with Northern Ireland's DUP - either in a coalition or more likely a "supply and confidence arrangement" - which...

Normally you would expect your local political club to support your party on election, day but one Conservative club has bucked the trend and appears to support a Labour victory. Christopher Kirk, 41 from Keswick was going to work this morning at a bakery, at 2.30am when he glanced into the local Conservative club window and couldn’t believe what he saw. He says: “I burst out laughing, someone had managed to get a vote Labour poster in the window. The...

Within Death in the Afternoon – a paean to Bullfighting, published in 1932 - Author, Journalist and keen drinker Ernest Hemingway wrote: “Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.” Not only does wine unlock a magical gateway to drunken, innocent gallantry,...

An eagle-eyed shopper captured the moment ex-Prime Minister David Cameron appears to jump to the front of a queue - to buy some SOCKS. The former leader seemed to be given special treatment as he popped into the Oxford Street branch of JD Sports in London to pick up a budget multi-pack. Flanked by two bodyguards, he can be seen taking the white socks to the cash desk to pay, before realising he has the wrong size. He then returns...