Challenge accepted. Just need to finish these book proofs and marking.

I think it's seeping out more than it used to. Has been there for a long time but wasn't directed (much) at Labour before the election and now it is in every group. Almost every post seems to end up with an (often violent) anti-Starmer/Labour response among the comments.

The simplest that you can be confident is robust, so it can be understood by the widest possible audience.

*Unless you are trying to get promoted then the most complex you understand :)

I wish it was only occasionally!

Hard to see many (any?) contenders who would get any easier ride, certainly none of the high profile women in Labour who also feature regularly in these posts.

At least it saved the Conservative party from the threat on the right...

Been struck over the last week by the number of posts labelling the changes at the White House as 'tacky', which seems to me to fall into this trap. How about attacking the expense instead of the aesthetic.

We had our first 'party food' meal of the season last weekend (though in our defence it was youngest's birthday weekend).

I don't think we need a poll, we've got more than enough data points to impute that.

I am very often in this position to the point of considering a kindle as the alternative.

I have 45 students on the Unit, if they were timetabled as two groups of 22/23 then by this stage I'd probably have 10 in each group and an extra two hours every week to do something much more productive.

I suspect it has stuck because so many well-educated parents had no idea what it was when it popped up on primary school reports.

Not especially high there was a period in 2017 where it was over 20% among Remain voters. It also varies alot by pollster and the approach they take, and then how they deal with them.

Pretend it is one of these

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Undoubtedly, it would be a boon.

this is only 'good' news for Labour if they can both convince the don't knows to return and squeeze the others in an anti-Reform vote. The later will depend critically on the tactical situation locally and a run of terrible council results for Labour could make that a tricker call.

While support for Reform UK is often noted to be higher in “left-behind” areas where deprivation is thought to be more pronounced, the correlation between their vote share and different deprivation measures remains rather weak. Only deprivation in education shows a somewhat stronger relationship.

The electoral outcome most strongly linked to deprivation is not any party’s vote share, but turnout. Across almost all indicators, turnout is markedly lower in more deprived areas, with only barriers to housing & services and quality in the living environment showing weaker correlations.