Daily catch-up: Greek Yes voters were so shy they didn’t even turn up to the polling stations

Plus the latest on British politics, pedantry and geography

1. It may not even be the 18th most important thing about the Greek referendum result, but it is interesting that the opinion polls got it wrong.

The final polls suggested a close result, with No just three percentage points ahead. The actual figures were 61 per cent No to 39 per cent Yes.

I thought the polls might be herding towards neck and neck, and that if support for either side were under-estimated it would be the “shy Yeses” that would cause it. But I think I got away with my wrong prediction, because I don’t think anyone noticed.

2. The Top 10 in The New Review, the Independent on Sunday magazine, was Towns Everyone Has Heard Of But Cannot Place On A Map.

3. As ever, Guy Keleny’s Errors & Omissions column on Saturday was a delight.

4. I wrote about the danger of hubris in George Osborne’s Budget on Wednesday for The Independent on Sunday. I don’t think he’ll cut the top rate of income tax to 40p. Unless he is to make a mockery of David Cameron’s one nation claim, he will have to impose a heavier burden on the better-off to offset the £12bn in welfare cuts that he claims to have found.

(A transcript of his interview with Andrew Marr yesterday is here.)

5. My Budget Bingo for The Independent on Sunday:

6. And finally, I recommend Euan McColm’s contribution to Ram Album Club, a brilliantly simple idea: people have to listen to a record they’ve never listened to before, and write about it. “It will do nobody any good to listen to this record and I would strongly counsel against trying.”