Just to chuck in my tuppence-worth about the fiasco surrounding 100 000 spoilt ballot papers in Thursday's elections ... there's no need for a judicial enquiry or costly investigation. The instructions that came with my postal ballot paper were so willfully obscure that I, with two degrees and in the most literate sector of the population, had to read them twice to begin to understand what on earth I was supposed to do. That no-one bothered to run its civil-service-speak through any sort of plain English check is absolutely shocking: it is amazing how many people still use their education as a barrier to effective communication, rather than to aid it.