15 June 2017 Gone Fishing? Mrs May still at her post by J.R.Thomas It’s that David Cameron I blame. And Ed Miliband. Instant resignations must be wonderfully healing for those who do the resigning, but for those who have to go on steering the machine, they just create a monstrous mess, another layer of problems … Continue reading Issue 109:2017 06 15:Gone fishing (J R Thomas)
Tag: opinion polls
Issue 107: 2017 06 01: Adding it all up – UK voting intentions (JR Thomas)
01 June 2017 Adding It All Up What the opinion polls are telling us. by J.R.Thomas When it comes to numbers, you may think the Tories have the Labour Party beat. Ms Abbott cannot do even the most basic sums, it is clear; and Mr Corbyn, it turns out, cannot remember his. Not many of… Continue reading Issue 107: 2017 06 01: Adding it all up – UK voting intentions (JR Thomas)
Issue 102: 2017 04 27: Statistics and other fibs (J R Thomas)
27 April 2017 Statistics and Other Fibs The election – just too complex. by J.R.Thomas Eyes down, look in. The electoral campaign is underway and the waterboarding of the public by polls and electoral surveys has begun; by the early part of June you won’t believe a word from any of them. Which is a… Continue reading Issue 102: 2017 04 27: Statistics and other fibs (J R Thomas)
Issue 79:2016 11 10:To the winner(J.R.Thomas)
10 November 2016 To The Winner…. Some whys and wherefores. by J.R.Thomas So… Congratulations, President-elect Trump. Commisserations, Mrs Clinton. Well done Mr Johnson. Hi to Bernie Sanders. To the opinion pollsters, a hug. To the media, a quick poke with a stick. To those who have read this series of articles and are still with… Continue reading Issue 79:2016 11 10:To the winner(J.R.Thomas)
Issue 73:2016 09 29:The Lives of Others (J.R.Thomas)
29 September 2016 The Lives of Others Cruz? Sanders? Rubio? Where are they all? by J.R.Thomas Ted Cruz. Remember him? And Marco Rubio; his name might be familiar to you? Before we move onto this week’s main event, the debate Tuesday night in Hofstra University, New York, between the winners; whatever happened to the losers?… Continue reading Issue 73:2016 09 29:The Lives of Others (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 39:2016 02 04: Not what we ordered (JR Thomas)
04 February 2016 Not What We Ordered by J.R.Thomas After the unexpected victory of the Conservative Party in Britain’s general election last May, the opinion pollsters entered into a rending of garments and agony of self-examination as to why they got it so wrong. (We did explain in these pages that it was their failure… Continue reading Issue 39:2016 02 04: Not what we ordered (JR Thomas)
Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief: UK
28 January 2016 Week in Brief: UK MI5 LGBT: In an announcement which some may find surprising, the Security Service (MI5) has been described by Stonewall, the gay rights group, as the best employer of people who are in the LGBT category. RUSSIAN ESPIONAGE: A Russian commentator has estimated that the number of intelligence officers… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 2: 2015 05 14: Polls Taxing
14 May 2015 Polls Taxing by J.R.Thomas As the spent ballot papers are fed through the shredders of town halls up and down the land, the reproaches begin. Some of the loudest come from the opinion pollsters – reproaching themselves. The practitioners of this mysterious and endlessly reweighted and rebalanced science have fallen into what… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 14: Polls Taxing
