Tag: elections

  • SOME REASONS TO BE SCEPTICAL OF THE HYPE ABOUT CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA (PART ONE)

    Like lots of people, I’ve been thinking about the current row about Cambridge Analytica and their supposed influencing of the US election and Brexit and possibly other elections around the world. I understand people’s anger and I understand the degree of fear that comes with the idea that we (or, more usually, some other group: […]

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  • ELECTIONS, APPLES, ORANGES, MISINFORMATION AND SIDES

    A quick follow up to my last post. I’ve had people insist to me that it is perfectly valid to compare the latest local election results with the 2015 elections. So I want to make clear why this simply isn’t true. Here are the results from the latest local elections presented in a map (see […]

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  • HURRAH! ANOTHER BLOODY ELECTION OPINION PIECE

    I don’t want to be one of those people in the Labour Party who constantly moans about the leadership. My natural instinct is to loyalty. I want Labour to do well because I believe the people I care about do better when Labour is in power and I think that constant infighting is, literally, self-defeating. […]

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  • LABOUR’S ELECTORAL SURGE: UPDATED

    So, in my last post I responded to a post that claimed that there was a resurgence of Labour support identified in local election results. I thought I’d follow that up with a more detailed look at how things are going. The chart above tracks the change in The Labour Party’s share of the vote […]

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