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Saturday, 27 February 2021

We can't sit on our hands and wait for the little buses to go

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  I have spent time the past week creating three maps and collecting data. I have a love of buses which goes back to my childhood and is som...
Saturday, 20 February 2021

Twelve Wasted Years and why it matters. A note to Curtis and Becca

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Last year when my grandson Curtis and his girlfriend Becca arrived in Nottingham, where he had come to do an MA at Nottingham-Trent Universi...
Wednesday, 17 February 2021

First past the post voting results in higher turnouts than proportional representation.

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Compiled these tables for a friend today. It's old data I have shown in other ways before. Even though I've supported PR since 1960 ...
Tuesday, 16 February 2021

What to look out for turnout-wise come the Notts County Council election on 6th May 2021

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In an ideal world, the Nottinghamshire County Council election would be on hold until the end of the summer but the pressure is on and the C...
Thursday, 11 February 2021

A walk and a treat for tea

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  The best day of the year, sunny, dry and not nearly as cold as the weather forecasters suggested, so I went with Susan to the local post o...
Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Another look at low Labour election turnouts

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  In a couple of recent posts I have touched  on the topic of election turnouts and what they mean for Labour in terms of planning campaigns...
Friday, 5 February 2021

It’s time we had an English Parliament

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  Logic says there needs to an English Parliament elected in the same way at the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, with the MPs also b...