Jon Snow: election is a pain in the neck

After yesterday's story on Alastair Stewart's hit election tie comes news that Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow specially picked politically neutral neckwear for the pre-election period in the form of a £65 Duchamp harlequin number. But the Independent reports that it has turned out not to be neutral enough – that technicolour dream tie is a just a bit too much. "The campaign tie has had to go," Snow said yesterday. "I can't face it again."