You can't apply vote changes from a by-election across the country like that to any useful end. By-election swings are typically much larger, not least because the intense campaigning generally … (View Post)

I don't think comparing Israel to Russia is helpful. It obscures more than it illuminates. But anyway, my interest at the moment is less whether it is odd, or whether I agree, that people should… (View Post)

I don't think we should necessarily dismiss concerns about the vote so glibly. We should worry about the potential for coercion, and things like photographing ballot papers does need to be preve… (View Post)

Burnham would undoubtedly have given Labour a boost, and it would have helped Labour a lot in the battle with the Greens as to who was best-placed to beat Reform. A lot would have depended on the cam… (View Post)

That said, one of the things about Gaza as an issue is that for many people it has a moral simplicity that domestic issues lack, precisely because it has nothing to do with Britain and so the complex… (View Post)