UK general election: Five steps to make sense of the latest polls
Unlike the 2015 general election, when the polls were essentially static (and wrong) throughout, the…
Nigel MarriottJune 6, 2017
How has the sharing economy changed job security?
There has been a great deal of attention given to the development of the 'sharing…
How has the sharing economy changed job security?
There has been a great deal of attention given to the development of the 'sharing…
Ian BrinkleySeptember 1, 2015
Electoral bias in the UK after the general election
After the shock result of the UK’s 2015 general election, one could forgive Labour and…
Charles Pattie & Ron JohnstonJune 26, 2015
Pollgate: hindsight is wonderful but it doesn’t answer what went wrong
After the pre-election polls spectacularly failed to predict a Conservative majority, many are seriously asking…
Oz FlanaganJune 11, 2015
Was anyone right about the pre-election polls?
There has been much wailing and gnashing of blogs since the dismal performance of the…
David SpiegelhalterMay 18, 2015
Why the polls got it so wrong in the British election
If the opinion polls had proved accurate, we would have woken up on the morning…
Leighton Vaughan WilliamsMay 11, 2015
(Un)representative democracy: where are all the female candidates?
Image: Catherine Bebbington/Parliamentary Copyright. Parliamentary Copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament.In a…
Mario Cortina BorjaApril 25, 2015
The Phillips Curve revisited
In my first article, A short overview of the Phillips Curve, I outlined the complicated…
Michael MernaghSeptember 19, 2013
The Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill and its historical precedent
I paid close attention to the debate in the House of Commons yesterday when the…
Andrew McCullochJanuary 9, 2013
