Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention poll from each pollster currently operating in Britain. If you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email: Understanding different polling firms You may find these posts useful: 'Waiting for Survation': a reminder of the value of checking the evidence. YouGov: is it biased to the Conservatives? Frequently Asked Questions Why isn't polling company X in ...
Sat 29th
21:11
Leicestershire police accused of giving trolls the green light to target politician's children
An extraordinary story from the Guardian: The Labour MP Stella Creasy believes police have given online trolls "the green light to target the children of politicians" after she was subject to a baseless complaint to social services. And sadly it is Leicestershire police who are responsible. As the Guardian explains, a man who uses the alias Lance Jones contacted Waltham Forest council to complain that Creasy's "extreme views" would damage her children and said that they should be removed from her care. "Jones" has no personal connection to Creasy or her two young children. Creasy, who is MP for Walthamstow, ...
Here's the latest tally of seats changing hands in principal authority council by-elections held since the last May round of local elections.
Sat 29th
16:24
Stella Creasy is right - trolls who make malicious complaints should face consequences
Being a woman on the internet in possession of an opinion has long been a wild ride. For most women in public life, abuse is so much worse than a man would get. And I think most of us are so used to it that we barely flinch unless the abuse directly threatens us or the people we love. The misogynistic trolls who spend so much of their time trying to make life miserable for women they don't agree with rarely face consequences. Now one of them has found a new way to persecute a high profile feminist and has ...
Nationwide Building Society has announced that it is reducing the hours during which the Ludlow branch will be open. From Monday 24 July, the Ludlow branch on The Bull Ring will be open to Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. It will be closed on Tuesday and Friday. We have to accept that banking is changing and more transactions are being done online. Closure on Tuesday makes sense as it is Ludlow's quietest day and there is not normally a market. My concern is that Nationwide will be closed on Fridays, the day which has the second highest footfall in the ...
When I was a young foreign affairs writer I foolishly suggested to my editor that the newspaper should print more foreign news. It was important, I argued, to educate our readers about the wider world. His eyes literally bulged from his head as he slowly rose from behind his desk, to bellow: "Educate!? Educate!? Your job is to write stories that sell newspapers, thus making money for our owner. Now get out and do just that." He was right. A free and informative press is a cornerstone of our democracy. But to be free and provide accurate information it must ...
An estimated four thousand British citizens have needed evacuation from Sudan. The UK government commenced its evacuation effort on Tuesday, 25th April, after it had reportedly evacuated its diplomats. By contrast, one day earlier, on Monday 24th April, EU High Representative Josep Borrell announced that 31 flights would have evacuated an estimated 1,200 EU citizens by the end of the day, with a remaining 400 EU citizens left to be evacuated. "There has been an incredible mobilisation of the [EU] Member States" said Mr Borrell, "that have air facilities and air capabilities to move planes, to move soldiers and to ...
GPs in Tayside will be closed on Monday 1st and Monday 8th May. Find out more ➡️ rightcaretayside.scot.nhs.uk
