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In which I fail to debunk a polling story
Welcome to the 195th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which took an unexpected twist while it was being written as it turned out that the details of…
What council by-elections tell us about the changing political system
Welcome to the 194th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at trends from the last half-year of council by-elections.
What to look out for in 2026
Welcome to the 193rd edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), the final edition of 2025 and so a good time to take a look at what to watch out for in the…
Do the Lib Dems win more seats by winning more votes?
Welcome to the 192nd edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at the relationship between seats and votes for the Liberal Democrats.
Has Reform hit a ceiling, or could its support go higher?
Welcome to the 191st edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a swerve from my previous piece about how Reform’s vote is slipping in the polls…
What people think of their area
Welcome to the 190th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which dusts off some polling from the summer that is relevant to one of the government’s…
Reform is sliding backwards in the polls
Welcome to the 189th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which you might expect to be all about polling on the Budget.
Questions for both The Times and Department of Health over resident doctors poll
Welcome to the 188th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which returns to the curious story about a poll of resident doctors that ran in The Times…
The misleading mystique of "internal polling"
Welcome to the 187th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at “internal polling” and why a media scoop about Labour’s internal polling…
Why people say they don't know anyone who has ever been polled
Welcome to the 186th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at a common - and superficially reasonable - critique of polling, namely…
More misleading presentation of polling on assisted dying?
Welcome to the 185th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which returns to the question of how polling on assisted dying is being presented, and also…
How do the polls stack up against actual election results?
Welcome to the 184th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at a pair of real election results to see how the opinion polls performed.
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