For the past few months, I've been working on an algorithmic approach to working out how well or badly parties have done in council by-elections. It uses the current council make-up, each party's str… (View Post)

I had a lot of time to think about the Confidence vote yesterday, on the train up to London (Stonehenge exhibition, I can highly recommend it), and was pondering the numbers. The actual result was pr… (View Post)

I have a close relative who works directly with Dorries. She (my relative) has only been in post for a few months, but is already resorting to almost Trumpian levels of simplification in her presenta… (View Post)

Don't know about DC3s but the Grumman Goose is pretty contemporary with that, and there are a couple of dozen of those still going. (View Post)

You can probably check by looking at them in that case. (View Post)