May 2017 Archives

The irrelevance of the main political axis of the 20th century

19/05/201719/05/2017 thomas 1 Comment

In most democracies, politics in the past century was dominated by two large parties – a socialist or social-democratic party

18/05/201718/05/2017 thomas 2 Comments

I’ve seen quite a lot of people girning about elected representatives as if they weren’t properly elected if they didn’t

08/05/2017 thomas 2 Comments

I’ve no idea why people are saying May will struggle to bring net migration down to under 100,000 per year.

06/05/201706/05/2017 thomas 1 Comment

Computing notional results is a useful technique for comparing two FPTP elections with each other. The problem it is trying

04/05/2017 thomas 0 Comments

It felt really important and weird to cast my vote today, because I realised that it could be the last

03/05/2017 thomas 0 Comments

The famous FAZ article made a really good point, namely that Theresa May seems to think the Brexit negotiations will

02/05/2017 thomas 4 Comments

I expect the UK (or perhaps I should say South Britain, as I expect Scotland and Northern Ireland will have