Tag: general election

Planning A New Kind Of UK General Election Results Show – Can You Help?

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Tuesday’s announcement of a General Election in the UK for June 8th caught me a little by surprise and set off a riot of emotions. I tend not to talk about politics too much online, so many of the thoughts I had yesterday are mine, or for friends and family. But I’ll happily tell you my very first thought, because it’s one you can all help with. “I need to get behind a microphone to do the results show from 10pm on June 8th.” I’ve anchored a number of overnight election shows on community radio here in Edinburgh since 2010. These

Trivial Posts #11: Killing Fifa, NPR’s Audible Secret, and Missing Decreasing Circles

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In the week I move house, the internet has been a distraction – which I guess is both good and bad. Still, there’s been quite a few articles that have caught my eye, and a few Trivial Posts might be just the tea-break I need For all of you driving by the website, you can subscribe to the mailing list to get your Trivial Posts as they go online. The Archaeologist, The BBC, And Ever Decreasing Circles. Let’s start with a fascinatingly nerdy piece  from Jason Hazeley on the BBC sitcom ‘Ever Decreasing Circles’. The starting point is ‘Season 1, five episodes’, but Hazeley’s story lays

How can you lose a referendum and then win the election?

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Professor John Curtice writes at FiveThirtyEight on the SNP and the upcoming General Election vote in Scotland: There are three main parts to the answer. The first is that May’s election is being held under very different rules from the referendum. Second, the question of what Scotland’s constitutional status should be now matters more to voters than it did in the past. And third, the SNP has come to be regarded by many voters as the party keenest on creating a more equal society. At 45 percent, the average level of support for the SNP in current Scotland-wide polls matches