Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is dumping the Lib Dems for Labour because Nick Clegg is a “whipping boy” and Ed Miliband is “genuine, genuinely leftwing, and will act as such if he gets in.” Yet Bayesian inference suggests Radcliffe’s reasoning is flawed. The probability of a politician behaving differently when in power compared to …
Ed Miliband
‘Conservative-led’? Or just Conservative?
It’s been a year since Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet diktat to stop using the word ‘coalition’ to describe the current government. The preferred term is ‘conservative-led’, chosen – apparently – to highlight the rightwing agenda of the government and the impotence of the Liberal Democrats in the coalition. A year on and it’s still bloody …
The same, but different. Lessons learnt from the first Labour leadership hustings.
I was lucky/unlucky enough (depending on your perspective) to attend the New Statesman Labour leadership hustings earlier in the week. As the hustings took place on the same day as nominations closed, I imagine they’ll get more media attention than the other fifty-odd hustings taking place across the country over the coming weeks. So much …