I don’t think Reform UK activists are appealing to American-style conservative Christianity because they think it’s popular and will win them elections. They are appealing to it to get lucrative US s… (View Post)

There have been massive Catholic v Protestant voting differences in your lifetime (unless you are under 30): https://theconversation.com/britains-changing-religious-vote-why-catholics-are-leaving-lab… (View Post)

Rob Ford et al. eviscerated this take on BlueSky recently: https://bsky.app/profile/robfordmancs.bsky.social/post/3mfrflexwd22i His thesis is that sectarian politics has been a feature of UK politics… (View Post)

I think we do have some potential LibDem/Green battlegrounds in the London council elections. We've seen Labour-dominated areas where the main opposition has switched from LibDem to Green. Take … (View Post)

Stephen Bush in the FT on the election: When I visited the seat I was struck just how many people liked the Greens and/or Spencer. But more importantly they knew what they didn’t want to happen, whic… (View Post)