The first thing some people say when I tell them I am in market research is “Oh, opinion polls?”. Well, no, the bulk of MR has nothing to do with them, but it doesn’t stop the wider industry getting the collective jitters when an el[…]

“Despite living there for the better part of four years, there are many things I can?t explain about Britain: the instinct to queue, the bad plumbing, and how a culture with such bland native food can love curry so much. What I can explain are […]

there are six polls being tracked by the bbc website: Communicate, ICM, MORI, NOP, Populus and YouGov
as of lunchtime, all but Communicate have updated to TODAY as final day of polling (data gathered last three days). YouGov, which polls interweb us[…]

i passed a comical young fellow, all hat and badges and incipient bumfluff not-yet-a-moustache, standing in angel on the way to work – he looked quite stressed and lonely, so i guess the polls look bad for his party this year
yes yes the rich […]

After 2 hours number taking, I can report a brisk trade in the Blackheath Westcombe ward. Turnout is about 10% after 3 hours – pretty good I’d say. My favourite moment was a 16 year old kid taking me to task as the Labour representative;[…]

I wonder how newspaper editors (or publishers) prepare for the solemn duty of telling their readers which way to vote. Do they have a special election pen? These things are always written as if they’d been composed at a stout oak desk using the[…]

So actually something which might mean something (floating voter = disillusioned voter after all). Glutter is a blog run by a friend* in Hong Kong which probably started, like many a blog as a way of talking about the minutiae of Yan’s day-to-d[…]

Amusing article about lookalikes which I initially clicked on because “Charles Kennedy” looks nothing like Charles Kennedy. Imagine my surprise when I read the piece to discover that “Charles” and the lookalike agency FREELY A[…]

It strikes me that my demographic is not what is traditionally thought of as a floating voter. Floating voters are of course so named because most parties would like to subject them to a ducking stool test where the only RIGHT answer is to vote for U[…]

on sunday sistrah becky and i took dad down south and west, to the stiperstones, with its rocky outcrops, past the abandoned leadmine at snailbeach: he would lead student field trips out here fortnightly at least, while he was still teaching, though […]