Yet three methodological concerns:
1. participation bias (volunteer acceptance alters random sampling)
2. small sample size (~100 participants limits statistical inference to ±10%
3. Intensive briefing can shift preferences away from typical voter behaviour
He is implying that somebody is using a rubber and a pencil to change people's votes. Impossible because the ballot boxes are opened in front of the candidates and their agents
Pencil is preferred because it doesn't rub off on other side of a folded ballot paper - ink can and invalidate vote
Not everyone's cup of tea to be sure but I thought this band was great, still is actually. I got a chance to hang out with them a little bit a few decades ago and they were funny as hell.
Abdication of policy making to an unelected 'focus group'
'Citizens Assemblies' combine the glibness of referendums with the undemocratic nature of a self-selecting process
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
August 1936: Hitler hosts the Olympic games
2 months later he signs the Axis alliance pact with fascist Mussolini
Within a year Mussolini attacks independent Ethiopia and Hitler joins in bombing civilians in the Spanish civil War at Guernica and other places
Another US intelligence failure:
Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab had once been part of a military compound
But the building has been functioning as a school for ordinary local families for over 10 years
160+ schoolgirls between 7 and 12 dead
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Disappointed to see Labour MPs vote down @libdems.org.uk proposals to cap the cost of branded school uniform. We want to put ££ back into parents' pockets and give schools freedom to set their own uniform policy. The Government's approach risks putting up uniform prices.
Munira Wilson, the Liberal Democrats’ education, children and families spokesperson, said: “The government’s failure to commit to a ban on harmful social media is simply not good enough – families need concrete assurances now.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Screenshot of a Truth Social post from Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) reading: “Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace. ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!President DJT”
Trump is insulting all those, including British families, worried about his illegal war driving up their energy bills.
Enough is enough. Keir Starmer must show Trump the UK won’t be pushed around and call off the King’s state visit.
Will it make the sun speed up and cause tidal surges?
(Asking for a friend...)
It is a dental insurance policy?
Nice spot! I did not know that.
Well at least we deserve credit for getting it out of the freezer and reusing it
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
The Liberal Democrats are a separate political party from Labour
Ed Davey is careful to support Starmer when a policy makes sense - and also to hold him to account when it does not
What you say is that you've had a service contract for checkups which are the same cost as a mobile phone
And also you say it is the uncontrolled costs of repairs and fillings that you cannot easily plan for
⅓ use private dentists...
How many no longer see any dentist?
From my 'dental desert' campaign feedback I say it is another ⅓
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Much different than Dire Straits but beautiful. Needed this for our Sunday morning...
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Maybe Ed Davey's statements on Trump have been a bit too subtle?
I only know one person who received this treatment - it was good for them
“Banning gender-affirming hormones for 16 and 17-year-olds is a profound attack on young people’s bodily autonomy with trans people yet again cruelly singled out by this government.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Cancer death rates down by 33%
Prostate cancer death rates only down by 11%, despite much improved testing diagnosis and treatment accuracy
Drugs like abiraterone merely delay, not cure
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
An excellent script which keeps you on edge all of the way through - relativistic montage monologues from the victim's relatives and friends keep the viewer wondering about the motive...
...even the epilogue titles have surprises
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Mia Mckenna-Bruce absolutely brilliant in the starring role
Recommended (despite occasional advert breaks)
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Bought for £8.5m
Sold for £8.85m
A 'knockdown price'?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"Nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain's foreign policy to Donald Trump"
- Lib Dems yesterday
"UK will not outsource foreign policy to the US"
- Yvette Cooper today
Labour belatedly following Lib Dem lines again
Meghan auditions as a chef?
Your Party to wind up...
...oh wait a minute - I got a bit of ahead of myself there
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The Lady
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Drama series ITVx
Fergie's dresser is involved in a murder, but whose is the dead body and how did it happen?
Based on real events but I've got no idea what happened so this is all rather intriguing
Advert breaks are just right to make a cup of tea just put your telly on silent
In which case you have permission to carry on not eating them...
They were brought up to be princesses and society expected them to do that they were funded accordingly to do public roles.
And now society is putting them down for something that they had no hand in.
