Notional results
Computing notional results is a useful technique for comparing two FPTP elections with each other. The problem it is trying
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Author: thomas
Last vote ever?
It felt really important and weird to cast my vote today, because I realised that it could be the last
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The lack of smoke-filled rooms
The famous FAZ article made a really good point, namely that Theresa May seems to think the Brexit negotiations will
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The prodigal son
I expect the UK (or perhaps I should say South Britain, as I expect Scotland and Northern Ireland will have
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The Brexit dinner
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s devastating description of the Brexit dinner is really worth reading (click on the photo for a
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Why do people believe the Brexplanations?
It’s becoming clear that the EU is coming together again, after suffering from a spell of rightwingitis. As Joris Luyendijk
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Electoral systems compared
We use four different electoral systems in Scotland (FPTP, AMS, STV and d’Hondt), and a few years ago there was
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