I'm trying to avoid hyperbole. "Vaguely amusing" is a passing grade. (View Post)

I grew up in South London. We only ever crossed the river: 1. For Kings Cross to visit Granny in Peterborough. 2. For Oxford Street (but no more than a couple of times a year). 3. On an organised sch… (View Post)

I made a start yesterday evening on teaching my three year old Irish niece to pronounce "butter" in the correct South London accent with silent "t"s. (View Post)

Seems to me one of the most important numbers is the proportion of Conservative 2019 voters now saying they will vote Labour. So that's what I looked at. I only took the value from the first (Yo… (View Post)

My hypothesis is that public opinion, as measured by opinion polls, mostly changes in discrete jumps in reaction to events that cut-through to people not paying much attention to politics. This can l… (View Post)