Not exactly. The very sharp age bias highlighted by TSE is relatively new. You used to be able to predict voting intention by income. That is now almost entirely irrelevant - it's predominantly … (View Post)

A sense of purpose and direction is normally required in a successful political party. Even if people don't agree with it at first, there may come a time when they decide to give it a try (cf. T… (View Post)

Interesting leading article by RP - thanks! I see what Sunak is trying to get us to think: 1. "There's a lot of dangerous radical Muslims. Help!" 2. "Even Galloway has been electe… (View Post)

Turnout was 39.7% - very respectable for a by-election. So we can't really say it's because an abnormal number of people sat it out. (View Post)

Absolutely. I know people with little interest in the Middle East and no religious leanings of any kind who can hardly bear to watch the news, and think the slaughter in Gaza is the most important cu… (View Post)