James Crouch
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@MrJCrouch
Head of Policy & Public Affairs Research @OpiniumResearch. Have some public policy to develop and communicate? Get in touch.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer is set to make Sadiq Khan a Lord [@FT]
South West Hampshire is not going to include the southernmost or westernmost part of Hampshire, give me strength
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Exc: What will Labour name its new towns? We can reveal some options drawn up by officials... - Elizabethtown (after late Queen) - Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline) - Attleeton (after ex-PM) - Athelstan (first King of England) - Seacole (after nurse Mary)
'I think he's bananas about this stuff, frankly.' Podcaster Dominic Sandbrook takes umbrage with his co-host's 'rubbish' views on Islam.
Definitely space for a weekly BBC show where Earl Attlee and Lord Soames (Churchill’s grandson) go undercover investigating various frauds and oddities.
This is 100% completely unsustainable as a society. Nearly 50% of all consumer spending now comes from the top 10% of earners. The bottom 80%? Their share keeps falling. This is why the economy can look strong in the data while millions of people feel like they're falling behind.
In response to that Guido article which allegedly “exposes” YouGov’s biasing What we are doing is effectively, via MRP (the thing which gets elections right a lot), applying a likely voter model What the Guido post doesn’t tell you is that *every pollster does that*. All of us
Yes. Fatherhood is the best thing that's happened to me. But why are fewer doing it? Cost. Housing. Income. Pessimism. Warped priorities. But also less 'coupling'. More ppl single -> less sex -> fewer babies. Why? Our public realm (pubs, parks, youth clubs, labour clubs) has been replaced by isolated, privatised spaces (Tik Tok, FB, scrolling, uber eats). Less booze, connection and community, fewer unexpected meetings, less time for romance and joy and relationships. For most, the public realm is the space for freedom, love, and hope. We should do everything to restore it.
NYT's Bret Stephens: "There's a fair bit of evidence that anti-Semitism doesn't decline as educational achievement rises—in fact, it increases."
