election
More big claims from the Scottish election
The elections in Scotland are proving a happy hunting ground for those who can scent a duff statistic.
It’s election time: think of a number, a big number
Knife crime, and its effects on the NHS, has become a big talking point in the elections in Scotland.
Good polls, poorly reported
Opinion polls fell thick and fast during the General Election. At times political correspondents appeared to be clinging to them like drowning men to a leaky life raft.
Committing Hari-Kiri with a blunt statistic
Many people have pored over the election result, trying to suck meaning from its indeterminate outcome.
Notional seats in Wales provoke a row
The BBC’s coverage of the General Election in Wales has triggered an angry response from the Mayor of Caernarfon, Councillor Hywel Roberts.
A close look at LibDem claims on pensioner poverty
Pensioners are a favourite group at election-time, some might say for cynical reasons.
Daily Mirror gets its pies in a twist
The Daily Mirror, still pushing hard for a Labour victory, has been a trifle dishonest in its presentation of the polling evidence.
Gordon Brown's dubious immigration claims
In Gordon Brown’s now infamous conversation with Gillian Duffy, the widow from Rochdale whom he described as “a sort of bigoted woman” he said: “A million people have c
Class sizes: a key pledge unmet
One issue in this election seems to hark back to 1997: school class sizes. Then it was one of Labour’s key manifesto pledges to cut class sizes to less than 30 for all five, six and
