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Polling Observatory General Election Forecast #1: Parties set for a photo finish

Rob FordMark PickupWill JenningsChristopher Wlezien By , , and Filed Under: Featured, Polling Observatory Posted:

With exactly a year to go until the country goes to the polls, the Polling Observatory team launch their forecast for the outcome of 2015 general election. Starting this month, the Polling Observatory team is joined by a new member: our old friend and colleague, Christopher Wlezien of the University of Texas at Austin, who will […]

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Doing wrong in order to do right in Northern Ireland

Stephen De Wijze By Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted:

As recent events in Northern Ireland have shown, sometimes it is necessary to do wrong in order to do right and we need to understand better this moral paradox when judging politicians, says Dr Stephen de Wijze. The debate about how Northern Ireland deals with its dreadful past has been building for many months. Indeed […]

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Polling Observatory #36: Farage’s Spring Uprising

Rob FordMark PickupWill Jennings By , and Filed Under: Polling Observatory Posted:

This is the thirty-sixth in a series of posts by Dr Robert Ford, Dr Will Jennings and Dr Mark Pickup  that report on the state of the parties in the UK as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence, the impact of the random variation that each individual survey inevitably produces can be […]

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Green policymakers should take a cue from Quorn’s success

Claire Hoolohan By Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted:

Last week Quorn announced it will invest £30m in its County Durham factory following significant sales growth in recent years. Claire Hoolohan argues that Quorn’s success is a signal to governments, policy makers, academics, and others that the time has arrived to move forward on the sustainable food agenda. Reducing the amount of meat in […]

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Time to tackle the big issues in black and minority ethnic mental health

Dawn Edge By Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted:

Against the backdrop of continued policy failures, the time has come to do something that fundamentally changes the way African Caribbean people come into contact with mental health services, says Dr Dawn Edge. Decades of research consistently report that African Caribbean people in the UK are at significantly greater risk of being diagnosed with psychoses […]

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Wrong, simplistic, unimaginative; dismantling Demos’s take on ethnic voting

Maria Sobolewska By Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted:

Upwardly mobile ethnic minority voters are more likely to turn Tory, claims new research by thinktank Demos. But Dr Maria Sobolewska questions the methodology of the study and the validity of the conclusions. Demos has published a report on whether the Conservatives could avoid Romney’s famous death by demographics, and attract enough ethnic minority votes […]

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Statues in the park are not just figures from the past

Andrew Smith By Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted:

Statues in our public parks tell us much about the British sense of identity, argues Dr Andrew Smith. Empire is everywhere in Britain, even if it is rarely noticed. Our parks are a case in point. When I walk through Glasgow’s central park, I pass repeated symbols of Victorian imperial glory resting in what has […]

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Towards sustainable consumption: start by reframing the questions

Daniel WelchNicola Spurling By and Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted:

Sustainable consumption is all too often framed in terms of individuals’ choices. The social practice perspective offers an alternative model, argue Dr Daniel Welch and Dr Nicola Spurling. “Do you find it easy to follow a sustainable lifestyle? Do you switch off every light? Plan each meal to avoid food waste? Why is behaviour change […]

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Ethnically diverse neighbourhoods are safest

Ian Warren By Filed Under: Featured Posted:

Examination of public health data shines a welcome light on which communities suffer the least – and most – violence, explains Ian Warren. People living in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods are less likely to suffer an assault than are residents of areas with little or no racial diversity. This is one of the striking results of […]

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Justice – and compensation – denied by new legislation

Hannah Quirk By Filed Under: Featured Posted:

Victims of miscarriages of justice are having their injustice made worse by a new change of law, argues Dr Hannah Quirk. For all the talk of the much derided ‘compensation culture’ that has supposedly developed in this country, the reality is that most victims of miscarriages of justice are not entitled to any redress from […]

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