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Con-Lib Pact Brings Cameron to PM’s Chair
So after all the political battles, intrigues, polling vagaries and mistaken projection, it’s out with Brown and in with a coalition government led by new Prime Minister David Cameron and deputy Prime...
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Political Comebacks, Compliments of Las Malvinas
From 538’s Tom DollarWhen Argentina went to war with the UK in 1982 over the Falkland Islands, Jorge Luis Borges likened it to “a fight between two bald men over a comb.” Last February, British oil...
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Is the Lib Dem Surge for Real (Part 4: The meltdown)
As part of our coverage of the UK general election we examined the surge in momentum and jump in national polling numbers for the Liberal Democrats that began with their leader, Nick Clegg, scoring big...
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UK: Labour Leadership Battle is Brewing
Behind the scenes of the UK general election this spring, another political skirmish was underway. With their electoral campaign deeply endangered by falling poll numbers, several senior Labour MPs,...
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America’s Most Cosmopolitan Metropolises
A reader asked us this week if we could figure out how long people live in New York City before they start calling themselves New Yorkers. As a Brit (or to use the Census Bureau’s term, a member of the...
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The conflict in Gaza has sparked a surge in anti-Semitism in Europe, according to several recent articles. People have targeted Jewish businesses and synagogues, and posted hateful messages on social...
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On Policy, Scotland Is Far From Most of Britain, But Not London
Scottish residents will go to the polls Thursday to decide whether they want to split from the United Kingdom. On many public policy questions, Scotland is already divided from much of Britain, which...
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A Rough Guide To Watching The Scottish Independence Vote
On Thursday, Scottish residents 16 and older will vote in a referendum to decide whether Scotland will leave the United Kingdom and become an independent nation. Final results probably won’t come in...
View ArticleLosing Scotland Would Be A Weather Winner For The U.K.
It was cloudy and cool in Scotland on Thursday as voters there decided whether their country should leave the United Kingdom. Some U.K. residents fear the economic and cultural fallout from a vote in...
View ArticleThe Scotland Independence Polls Were Pretty Bad
About a year ago, I was on a book tour in Edinburgh and was asked by a couple of reporters about Scotland’s upcoming vote on whether to secede from the United Kingdom. The “yes” vote (a vote to secede)...
View ArticleWhy Pollsters Think They Underestimated ‘No’ In Scotland
With two notable exceptions, opinion polls released this month about Scotland’s independence referendum vote gave an accurate picture: “No,” a vote against leaving the United Kingdom, was the steady...
View ArticleScottish Regions’ View On Self-Governance Hasn’t Changed Much Since 1997
One of the unknowns heading into Scotland’s independence referendum was how different parts of the nation would vote. But now that we know how the regions voted, it turns out that we had a decent guide...
View ArticleU.K. Report Is Latest Evidence That Crime Stats Heavily Undercount Rape
A U.K. parliamentary advisory body on Tuesday provided yet more evidence of what criminologists have long reported: Official sexual-assault statistics understate the extent of the problem. And the U.K....
View ArticleHow To Make Sense Of The Brexit Turmoil
OK, so now what? Britons shocked the world on Thursday by voting narrowly but decisively to leave the European Union. The news roiled global financial markets and sent the value of the British pound...
View ArticlePolitics Podcast: Brexit’s Moment Of Truth Is Approaching
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View ArticlePolitics Podcast: Is Boris Johnson Finished?
FiveThirtyEight More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS In recent months, news reports in the U.K. revealed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson attended parties in government buildings while Britain was...
View ArticleWhy The U.S. And U.K. Treat Political Scandals Differently
In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, hosts of the British “Talking Politics” podcast, David Runciman and Helen Thompson, discuss why the British public and some members of the...
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Trust In Institutions Is Eroding On Both Sides Of The Pond, And The Queen Was...
Monarchy Trust In Institutions Is Eroding On Both Sides Of The Pond, And The Queen Was Not Exempt By Zoha Qamar Sep. 16, 2022, at 6:00 AM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DAN DAO / GETTY IMAGES Welcome to...
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Who’s Excited For The Coronation Of King Charles?
British Royal Family Who's Excited For The Coronation Of King Charles? By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux May 5, 2023, at 6:00 AM AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth Tomorrow is Coronation Day in the United Kingdom —...
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FiveThirtyEight More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS | Amazon Music | Spotify King Charles III was crowned over the weekend, which led to a lot of polls comparing his popularity to that of other...
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