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15 June 2023

Victory of the Marsupials

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And here we all are at last. The 30,000-word diatribe which will make for a shredder's field day in Westminster next week has finally be...
22 March 2023

Parties, Conspiracies, and Wine-Time Fridays: thoughts on "Partygate"

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"If the poll tax was the reason she fell, Europe was the reason she wasn't able to get up again." Modern-day commentators like...
7 July 2021

How to be affected by Covid, without being infected by Covid

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What is the point of text blogs any more? No one does them. They're all doing vlogs instead. Vlogs, on YouTube, which, for some people, ...
8 October 2020

Will Biden win? US Election 2020

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Four years on from 2016, and we're back looking at polls, swings, gains, losses, etc. Well, in a way, it's only one year on from the...
8 May 2020

2019 General Election under Proportional Representation?

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This is something I always do, and I always use the only form of PR which we can use (since others require a "second choice" vote...
25 April 2020

What if F1 had the Eurovision points structure?

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Formula One has had various points systems over the years, but for this thought experiment we're going to apply the following points str...
30 January 2020

2019 General Election Results Analysis

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Hello there. I love general elections. I get to turn into Peter Snow, by talking about exactly what happened and how it happened and what i...
26 February 2018

Why I'm Against The UCU Strikes - In Depth - Say No to Militant Students

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I really can't think of a good introduction for this post. It's a very contentious topic, certainly, and it has led to consequences...
16 March 2017

Article 50, my dear. And it seems not a moment too soon...

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You probably weren't watching on Saturday night. After all, I wouldn't expect many in the UK to. I am, of course, referring to the ...