Extraordinary how the police behaved during his visit to the Cotswolds: Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to… (View Post)

I see a moral panic being whipped up here. Yes accident rates do go up with age per mile travelled, but older drivers do far lower mileage, so these figures can be misleading. We do need to bear in m… (View Post)

Not sure that it does. This is under FPTP, with the leading party (Reform) on 31%. It's the split opposition that creates this map. A map of second places might be much less urban for Labour. Th… (View Post)

There's a great piece of analysis of voter movements in the year since the GE here: https://bsky.app/profile/dylandifford.bsky.social/post/3lvy2ztfbu22p There are a couple of interesting nuggets… (View Post)

Mine are Ben Sherman, and the sale at that. It reminds me of the joke about 2 Russian oligarchs: Oligarch one: Hey, Boris, get a load of my new jacket, it cost $2000 Oligarch two: That's nothing… (View Post)