This week's The Election Tricyle, on candidate complacency, is up and it is here
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I have a suggestion

Just the Conservatives after 1979; Labour after 1997; and the Conservatives after 2010. 🤷‍♀️

'I'll break your legs'

Babe are you okay? You haven’t finished your 80th anniversary of D-Day commemorative Jelly Babies

In case you missed it (which you did, that’s the point): a story about how I was in the Daily Express but nobody noticed, not even me, and what that tells us about Labour’s comms strategy dividinglines.substack.com/p/express-deli…

Thought experiment: imagine being told, a decade ago, that in 2024 parliament would pass primary legislation declaring that Rwanda (and only Rwanda) is a safe country, and being asked to come up with a reason why it might do that.

On those Labour ads in the Express: Tom Hamilton dividinglines.substack.com/p/express-deli…

NEW BLOG for Public First:

Politicians are intensely unpopular these days, and so, we wanted to figure out who the public would rather have in positions of leadership.

What kind of people does the 🇺🇸 public want to see run for office?

Read more here: pfdatablog.com/blog/who-do-am…

'You need to buy the ad space to make people report that you’re buying the ad space.'

This analysis gives a coherent explanation for what's going on, which is a rare bonus on these times and worth having IMO. The slight downside is that what's going on is absolutely stone mad.

I wrote about the Tony Travers Conundrum in the Commons Confidential newsletter last week

I wrote about Labour putting ads in the Daily Express and why the most important audience for Labour’s ads in the Daily Express doesn’t even read the Daily Express: dividinglines.substack.com/p/express-deli…

I wrote about this here: dividinglines.substack.com/p/express-deli…

Great piece from m'colleague Tom Hamilton

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