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Opinion Polls – The Methodology and Reliability

26th August 2026 Going Postal 0

The previous piece on opinion polls looked at who commissions opinion polls and what might be their motivations. This second piece is about how opinion polls are conducted and how reliable they are. Let us [more…]

Elections

Why Do Voters Elect Known Criminals to Office?

26th August 2026 Patrick Barron 0

I’m sure that most readers are shocked when they learn that a known criminal has been elected to an office of trust in some level of government. (I saw just the other day that a [more…]

Elections

Opinion Polls & Opinion Pollsters

25th August 2026 Going Postal 0

In 1992, every opinion poll and market research organization predicted a Labour victory at the general election. The BBC exit poll as the polls closed at 10pm on 9 April 1992 suggested that the Conservatives [more…]

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Rday – An Icarus who soared to close to the Truth

25th August 2026 Going Postal 0

I had two immediate reactions to the news of Jason Arday’s apparent suicide. The first was sadness, especially for his two children, wife, and parents. The second was to start a countdown to when the [more…]

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A Captain Comes to Call

24th August 2026 Going Postal 0

My name’s Wallace. Not the Wallace, a Wallace, or rather A. Wallace, Albert Wallace that is and… Let me start over. My name is Albert Wallace and I’m a driver for the RASS – the [more…]

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The promises of Bodybags

24th August 2026 well_chuffed 0

One of the reasons Bodybags Burnham gave for not needing a General Election when became Prime Minister was that he was going to stick to Labour’s 2024 manifesto. You know, the manifesto that Rodney Spanner [more…]

Collecting

Smalls acts of resistance: P-p-p-pick up a pen and start planning

23rd August 2026 Going Postal 0

The following two statements are a given among most GPers: We won’t vote our way out of this; we and our way of life are being replaced at a rate of knots… The late Patrick [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Thirty-Eight

23rd August 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It was getting hotter again this morning when I went out. I hear it is building up to Thursday being the hottest day of the week and then getting [more…]

Mystery

Postcard From Jerry, Part Three

22nd August 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

One can never tire of Jerry Westerby, an old-school Fleet Street soak with a rugby forward’s build but a talent for wicket-keeping before the call of sports journalism pulled him away from the crease and [more…]

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