Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention polls for the next general election, along with party leadership ratings. 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, The Week in Polls: General election voting intention polls PollsterConLabLDGrnRefLab leadFieldwork Opinium 23% (-2) 29% (nc) 11% (+1) 10% (+1) 22% (+1) 6% 18-20/12 GB Techne 26% (+1) 27% (nc) 12% (+1) 7% (nc) 21% ...
Peter Oborne reviews Sayeeda Warsi's memoirs: "For many years, Warsi devoted her life to the UK Conservative party. When she joined it two decades ago, it seemed to embody everything she believed in: family values, decency, tolerance, fairness, the rule of law. Slowly, the UK's first female Muslim cabinet minister's eyes opened. She came to realise that it wasn't like that at all. In Muslims Don't Matter, she records the betrayals, the bullying, the abuse, the insults." "The nation's bank clerks showed their gratitude for their extra days of rest by subscribing to a testimonial for Lubbock, who used their ...
This is a 90-minute interview with Dave Alex Riddett, who has been the director of photography on all the Aardman feature films, including this Christmas's Vengeance Most Fowl. He discusses his family, influences and career. If you can't spare 90 minutes then I recommend the 20 or so from 39:00, where he talks about shooting the groundbreaking Sledgehammer video for Peter Gabriel and then working with Nick Park at Aardman. I have a second reason for posting this video besides its intrinsic interest. When I moved to Market Harborough in 1973, Dave Riddett's brother was one of the first friends ...
February Ed Davey's habit of calling on people to resign had not escaped the old boy's notice: While leader of the Liberal Democrats, he has, with mixed effect, called for the resignations of, amongst other, Boris Johnson, Kwasi Kwarteng, Cressida Dick, Dominic Cummings, Chris Grayling, Priti Patel, Mark Field, Rishi Sunak, the former BBC chairman Richard Sharp, the board of Thames Water, Mauricio Pochettino, Nigella Lawson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Fatima Whitbread, Kirsty Wark, Kirsty Young, Jonny Bairstow, Rosie Holt, the late Dame Anna Neagle, the Rutland Water Monster and the Dalai Lama. March Reading Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of ...
[IMG: Thank You spelt out on letter tiles] Image by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay. As we come to the end of the year it's a good time to give thanks once again to two folk who are a source of much of the information about council by-elections and councillors switching parties which feature in my own output: the Election Maps UK Bluesky account and the Open Council Data website. If you've enjoyed my coverage of by-elections or Liberal Democrat Newswire, you too have been indirectly dependent on them both. So why not give them a little thank you this Christmas with ...
Wrens sang Christmas Carols at Maryfield Hospital back in 1965, with thanks to DC Thomson & Co Ltd.
He isn't in the White House yet and already Donald Trump has set his beady eye on acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal. And we thought Putin's expansionism was bad enough. Some have speculated that Trump's interest in the largely uninhabited land mass off America's east coast is because of its vast mineral wealth. but it is also the case that Greenland has its own internet network and does not allow Musk's Starlink to operate there. That would all change if the country came under the auspices of the US government. As the Independent reports, the Danish government, who currently ...
