Tag Archive: By-election

Politics: it don’t mean nothing

March 1, 2024 3:46 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Well before midnight yesterday, Sky News was proclaiming that Galloway had won. The broadcaster also claimed that former Labour candidate... View Article

Politics: Rochdale ruminations

February 28, 2024 3:56 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

In the run-up to the Rochdale by-election, set for tomorrow, photographs have been republished on Twitter showing candidate George Galloway... View Article

Politics: punditry

February 17, 2024 2:43 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

To say that Thursday evening and the early hours of Friday morning constituted “another disappointing election night for the Conservatives”... View Article

Politics: them elections

February 16, 2024 3:43 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Although I tend not to sit up and wait for by-election results these days, the two contests, Wellingborough and Kingswood,... View Article

Politics: chaos

February 14, 2024 2:44 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

For those who are employed as political analysts, the job must be immensely frustrating at the moment. Certainties no longer... View Article

Politics: the penny drops

October 21, 2023 1:20 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Despite awaking to yet another power cut – the second in as many months – I was not deprived for... View Article

Politics: an “overwhelming victory”?

October 7, 2023 2:06 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

What makes Thursday’s Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election interesting – albeit only marginally so – is not the result, per... View Article

Politics: scrapping the green crap

July 27, 2023 12:57 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Continuing with my by-election analysis, but bringing the related issues up to date, one word which has become almost synonymous... View Article

Politics: even more analysis

July 25, 2023 12:25 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

So, yesterday, I started the laborious process of analysing the results of last week’s by-elections, starting with Selby and Ainsty.... View Article

Politics: delayed analysis

July 24, 2023 12:55 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Possibly, the most accurate prediction I have ever made was on the Open Thread piece for Tuesday. Then, I wrote... View Article

Politics: fantasy elections

July 16, 2023 3:30 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It is hard to credit the degree of technical illiteracy of some journalists when you come across this gem: “Dark... View Article

Politics: small differences

July 15, 2023 3:59 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

A tedious piece of “colour writing” in The Times about “Rishi Sunak’s barbecue for 150 Tory MPs in the Downing... View Article

Politics: end of the beginning?

June 24, 2022 1:21 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

As I started to write in the late evening of yesterday, it was exactly six years ago to the very... View Article

Politics: the golden rule

December 18, 2021 2:05 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Of the torrent of comment following the Conservative by-election defeat in North Shropshire, I don’t think anyone has been more... View Article

Politics: humiliation

December 17, 2021 8:32 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

So, the Lib-Dems have done it, with local girl Helen Morgan polling 17,957 votes to take the seat with a... View Article

Politics: “quietly confident”

July 2, 2021 12:14 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Of the many pictures published in the media of the Batley and Spen constituency over the next few days, I’ll... View Article

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