Opinium's anticipated swingback is a brave pollig experiment. If it's accurate, we should see the other polls swing into line with it as the election approaches. The problem is that each el… (View Post)

An interesting question, rather as when we discuss Scottish, is how far this election is driven by ideology and how far by personal liking. If we think of Badenoch, Braverman and Truss as all appeali… (View Post)

We need to be wary a lot of the reporting of the war, much of which is really anecdotal stuff designed to entertain partisan readers/listeners. Objectively it's clear that the Russians tried for… (View Post)

I think racism is more subtle than generally supposed. I agree we've reached the point where most people are really relaxed about someone they like having a different ethnicity. But it doesn… (View Post)

I've been quite impressed by Rishi's launch, but (admittedly as an uninvolved observer) I'm genuinely unsure if his pitch is a return to austerity or something else. We can all say we&… (View Post)