Marios Richards·Jan 4, 2020Square Politics: An Insultingly Simple ModelIn this blog I’m going to try to briefly explain my default model of politics and political coalitions in a representative democracy. This…
Marios Richards·Dec 23, 2019Response to Simon Wren-Lewis’ “Can we think about politics from Blair onwards in one chart?”Can we think about politics from Blair onwards in one chart?
Marios Richards·Nov 15, 2019Political Patchwork ChartI’ve built a new chart building on previous work with British Election Study data and the Political Compass (two major axes of political…A response icon1A response icon1
Marios Richards·Mar 18, 2019Public Social Benefits paid to Lowest/Highest Income FifthsI grew up in the UK in the 80–90s and two of the basic norms I inhaled then were:
InTDS ArchivebyMarios Richards·Mar 16, 2019Climate Change — and its weird connection to BrexitThere is a fairly solid consensus (62/38) that climate change is happening and that it is due to human activity.A response icon1A response icon1
InTDS ArchivebyMarios Richards·Mar 8, 2019What’s up with the UK Broadsheet/Tabloid split?In my last blog post I introduced (rehashed) an approach to differentiating UK newspapers by plotting their readership’s Political Compass…
InTDS ArchivebyMarios Richards·Mar 6, 2019What is the Right-Wing Press?Commentators and Normal Folk define the Right-Wing Press so broadly — from The Sun, through the Daily Star, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The…
Marios Richards·Feb 6, 2019“Ah — I’m sure it’ll be fine!”I browse a number of different forums where Brexit is discussed and the field for the most irritating argument is, as you might imagine…
Marios Richards·May 31, 2018On the Shift in UK Immigration Sentiment (preliminary observations)Inspired by Rob Ford’s Medium blog on this (back in January) and contemporary twitter discussions I’ve been poking at the most recent…
