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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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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