The polls are ludicrously everywhere and anywhere in this election. This is due in part to what I discussed a few days ago: the polling houses have not settled on a consensus fix for 2015. Again, it a
This election has caught everybody off guard, including the pollsters. The polling houses hadn’t yet decided on a common approach in response to the wreckage of the 2015 General Election. A si
You’re Theresa May, vaguely accidental Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. You’ve inherited a flimsy majority in the House of Commons, currently
This is daunting. Daunting not only because I’ve been pondering how one writes about someone as talented as SEK, someone who had an inimitable ability to see the world from a different angle than mo
So, in my inimitable way, I went out last night and got happily drunk. Said drunk excursion commenced with chatting with several of my MA students. It turns out that one is a member of the Labour
I’ve been trying to make some sort of rational sense of this all morning. There are two rough theories which work together. First, given the tone of her speech last night, it’s clear she
Javier Sajuria posted this over at the UCL Constitution Unit last week while I was busy finding new and efficient ways to haemorrhage cash in Geneva. It’s worth a read, and applies some polit
As Andrea Leadsom has just withdrawn from the race to be Conservative Party leader: Andrea Leadsom says her backing from MPs is not “sufficient support to lead a strong and stable government&#