Daniel McNamara

My op ed on the future of Labor: smh.com.au/national/labor…

Also, I am treating Oasis 2025 as a clear vindication of the Cool Britannia Mark II hypothesis

This is a great yarn 7news.com.au/sport/afl/afl-…

On the other, if England does win it will definitely boost my ‘Cool Britannia mark II’ narrative

So on the one hand, Euros is the Commonwealth Games of soccer - exclude the best team in the world so that someone else can win

How London voted. The final constituency to declare (Hendon) came down to just 15 votes! londonist.com/london/politic…

Labour is less popular in the Red Wall than in 2019 when Jeremy Corbyn was leader, losing 17,000 votes overall Despite winning almost all of these seats, there's been little change in their overall support

Once in a lifetime experience - voted in two countries’ elections on the same day

Great summary of how we got here from the bard of our times @hansvan333 afr.com/world/europe/w…

An irrepressible outbreak of national optimism is about to arrive in Britain. Cool Britannia mark II - you heard it here first

Love Me Tender also got a mention on p. 10 of the recent Senate Enquiry into Consulting parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/downl…

‘a disgruntled community member has created a rival, user-friendly website called "Love Me Tender".’ lol abc.net.au/news/2024-06-1…

This is kind of cool - my op-ed from 3 years ago has made its way into @murpharoo’s Quarterly Essay.

Avg 2pp swing to Labor by AEC socio_dem in fully counted 2pps. Includes teal and Grn seats. Second table is only across classic seats (with full 2pp counts).

@lechblaine @SallySitou Congrats mate. Just read in full. This is a landmark piece of Australian political journalism.

(2) I chatted to a bunch of voters, and some of Labor’s new MP’s i.e. Zaneta Mascarenhas @SallySitou Michelle Ananda-Rajah and Dan Repacholi. Unfortunately, I could only include 10% of the people I interviewed. Still, I tried my best to create a kaleidoscope of the general mood

themonthly.com.au/issue/2022/may… (1) “Scott Morrison was on a slippery slope from the Promised Land to rock bottom.” So begins my election essay for @THEMONTHLY The paywall has been lifted today

What an extraordinary map of Melbourne from the Sunday Age. The Liberal Party all but wiped out

Not everything in here moved - but many of the most remarkable results are on this list

More on this trend in my Dec 2019 op-ed: smh.com.au/national/labor…

The political realignment sweeping western democracies has now well and truly arrived in Australia - big cities are now dominated by progressive parties, including affluent areas that were traditionally conservative. This is how Labor forms government in 2022.

NEW: for this week’s column I dug into the curious case of British attitudes to immigration Before the EU ref, concern about immigration tracked levels of arrivals. Since then, immigration has kept rising but concerns have evaporated What’s going on? ft.com/content/f2d72f…

How Macron did it - running up the score in the big cities and among tertiary educated voters. Interestingly, he also did better among older people - I guess this is to do with Le Pen not coming from a mainstream conservative party. theguardian.com/world/2022/apr…