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The reason for the shock, of course, is that polls had Labour either winning or, at the very least, fighting the Conservatives down to the last seat. Truth be told, far too many politicians and reporters treat pollsters like soothsayers these days. And no pollster cultivates this treatment more than Nate Silver – whose FiveThirtyEight analytics attained… Read more.
From the outset of the crisis in Ukraine, I’ve been exhorting European leaders to demonstrate that they’ve learned from the catastrophic consequences that followed their predecessors’ continual appeasement of Adolf Hitler. These European quislings insist that sanctions would amount to cutting off the nose to spite the face — not only because they conduct so… Read more.
What a bloody mess! In a self-fulfilling prophecy yesterday, voters gave Britain the hung parliament that was so devoutly to be wished. For preliminary General Election results indicate that none of the three main parties will end up with the outright majority of 326 seats needed to govern alone. Instead, according to BBC projections, the… Read more.
In an event purportedly as historic as the first televised US presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon 50 years ago, the leaders of Britain’s three major parties – Labour’s Gordon Brown, the Conservative’s David Cameron, and the Liberal Democrats’ Nick Clegg – engaged in the country’s first televised election debate in Manchester… Read more.
