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As we are all waiting, shall I tell the story of me watching the experimental attempt of Norwegian television covering a cricket match in 2004? It might have been a

This is even more revealing than the data by party. Scottish party leader coverage during the campaign, across Scottish and UK papers.Alex Salmond has received more coverage than every other

There is a way of illustrating how Brexit politics and then also Covid politics may have shifted perceptions about risk of independence among the Scottish electorate. Namely through the stark

My thinking on Starmer is not that he is a centrist but that he goes full valence in contrast to Corbyn's purely positional opposition.Not a lot to play with when

Crisis handling is not judged by outcomes.If we take ONS/NRS/NISRA figures, COVID death/1M population:England: 68Scotland: 65Which is of course also right, because government decisions are not the only variables determining

Merkel is just finding out how German compound words can come to bite you later. She framed the term "Öffnungsdiskussionsorgien", most obviously but not helpfully to be translated as "opening

While there are all sorts of doubts about how China is covering up the true scale of its #covid19 pandemic, there is a giveaway in the data, I think.China fatality

This is an interesting debate, whether media bias, i.e. the Tory press vilifying Corbyn, is responsible for his low approval ratings. The problem with this is that the decline in