One of the most curious questions asked at committee of late was by Joyce Barrow, the Conservative chair of the Place Overview Committee: "We all know we had a by-election last year, I'd love to know what the difference in tonnage was because of the amount of leaflets that were put out by all the parties was astronomical, actually diabolical. We are supposed to be going green. Are there any statistics on how much it has gone up..." The officer responded that he did not want commit but data will be available through Veolia. He said he hoped any excess ...
A nice easy question for me and Callum Robertson to chew over in the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts. Here's what we made of it... Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes Labour NEC member deselected as a councillor.The core vote argument.Michael Crick's Twitter account tracking Parliamentary selection contests.Callum Robertson on Twitter.For a Fair Deal: the Lib Dem plan for the UK.Sam Seaborn on taxing the rich on The West Wing.Electoral Shocks: The Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World by Edward Fieldhouse and others: Amazon, Bookshop, ...
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Steve Race, Honor Blackman and David Hemmings at Liberal Party HQ during the February 1974 general e...
The blurb on Getty Images dates this photo to 26 February - two days before polling day.
With the end of another, rather interesting, quarter, another update to PollBase, my database of British voting intention opinion polls since 1943 is now up. Three polls are missing details at the moment, alas. It's one each from Savanta ComRes, Redfield & Wilton and Opinium. They're all signed up to the British Polling Council's transparency rules so hopefully answers will be along soon, but if you're reading this and from one of those firms, please do get in touch if you can help smooth those queries along. Thank you. Enjoy! P.S. For the very latest polls, see my polling scorecard ...
History may well record the 2022 Chinese Communist Party Congress which starts next week as the Party's peak. It is certainly the apex for Xi Jinping who has climbed the greased pole to become the only Chinese leader since Mao to serve more than ten years in the top job. China itself now has the second largest economy, army, air force and navy on the planet. It also has the largest population. Beijing also has the world's largest foreign aid budget and has invested trillions of dollars in foreign infrastructure projects for its belt/road initiative. A third of the world's ...
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The Mirror has an interesting insight on how the Tories raise some of their money, with a piece in which Gareth Quarry, who has defected to Labour with a £100,000 donation, tells of secretive meals with a 'planted Q and A' where 'the great and the good were allowed to ask one question each': In an explosive Sky News interview, legal recruitment boss Gareth Quarry branded the Conservatives "riven with arrogance and complacency" and "totally out of touch" with the public. Mr Quarry, 63, said meals with donors who gave over £50,000 would have "a planted Q and A the ...
Woven Together Dundee is a community-based research project exploring Black and ethnic minority history in Dundee. For this special live event as part of Black History Month, some of the project volunteers will discuss the stories they have uncovered about the city's links to slavery. Run in association with the Abertay Historical Society, the event will be held in Lecture Theatre 2, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee on Wednesday 12th October at 6.30pm. The event is free to attend and full details including booking are available at
