thomas

The UK cannot move for embarrassment

06/08/201730/11/2017 thomas 0 Comments

Rafael Behr had a rather interesting wee article in The Guardian recently, but I fear many might have ignored it

04/08/2017 thomas 1 Comment

The British Election Study team has produced some really interesting graphs showing how the four main groups of Scottish voters

24/07/2017 thomas 0 Comments

All political parties over a certain size are essentially coalitions. Their members generally agree on some questions but disagree wildly

09/06/201709/06/2017 thomas 1 Comment

The SNP has lost a lot of excellent MPs, and Westminster will be poorer without them. Amongst them, my local

08/06/2017 thomas 2 Comments

I don’t understand why the vast majority of people haven’t sussed yet that Brexit will be an unmitigated disaster. I

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