To be fair the Chief Executive and senior management team have changed a fair few times….

The ECHR has been a huge force for good but it now needs saving from itself. Reforms are needed to blunt populist challenges

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The Great Get Together (21-23 June 2024) is the UK’s annual celebration of everything that unites our communities, inspired by Jo Cox’s belief that we have more in common than that which divides us.

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Come work with me! Labour Together are hiring for a recent graduate who hasn't worked in polling before to come and work with me and Christabel Cooper in our public opinion research team. The role is a FTC six month internship.

Really interesting analysis from Jim looking at how we might expect Reform UK to do in Blackpool South based on their national vote share, previous by elections and UKIPs by election to general election drop off rate.

“Bans are very British. The public - in a soft way - are quite authoritarian, especially when it comes to public health.”

Right-wing politicians think Rishi Sunak is miles away from people on his proposed smoking ban.

Pollster Luke Tryl disagrees.

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I think the National Conservativism conference should have been able to proceed. A capital city like Brussels should surely be able to police and protect both an international political event and a counter-protest about the ideas or speakers at that event politico.eu/article/brusse…

What happened at the Claridge today is unacceptable. Municipal autonomy is a cornerstone of our democracy but can never overrule the Belgian constitution guaranteeing the freedom of speech and peaceful assembly since 1830. Banning political meetings is unconstitutional.Full stop.

Quite clearly wrong to send police to try and shut this event down and a mistake for those who disagree with Nat Con message to think it does anything other than amplify their message and provide a data point to support their claims that free speech is being suppressed.

Everyone backs the shutting down of meetings until it is their meeting that is shutdown

Brand new ep of The Rest Is Entertainment out today, in which Richard Osman and I discuss movies based on toys and games (a Monopoly one is coming), end of a Saturday night TV era, and how the audiences of big TV show skew politically (thank you to More in Common for the…

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This is such an excellent, informative and accessible guide to polling - perfectly timed for the election. Strongly recommend anyone interested in opinion polls or who uses the results of them reads it.