Trike Recommends: Tom Hamilton recommends Steve Akehurst's Substack post on Labour's electoral coalition.
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A rarely-seen 'don't care' response option on a question in our article today - asked about the England flag furore from last month, 19% answered 'don't care'. Compared against the same question without that option, we can see that 5-7pts on either side ultimately didn't care

Your periodic reminder that England, a windswept nation with more potential for onshore wind power than almost anywhere else in the world (other than Scotland), banned new onshore wind farms in 2017.

England your England ❤️

This is v good. Council house sales were for the Tories what higher education expansion has been for Labour - discuss.

An excellent and insightful article from Steve Akehurst - analysis of poll crosstabs tends to focus on the winning coalition of voters from the prior GE.

Hence, we know lots about the (range of) views of the 2019 Tory vote.

This piece delves into the (likely) 2024 Labour vote.

Cheering as Ukraine aid passes the House, chants of “Ukraine”

Interesting and detailed from Steve Akehurst on make-up of Labour coalition - generally more progressive/educated than in Blair days, but also more united on economics than culture... strongmessagehere.substack.com/p/getting-to-k…

'Getting to know Labour’s new electoral coalition' - another really great post from Steve Akehurst (Do give him a follow). open.substack.com/pub/strongmess…

1/2 The swing of young men away from the Democrats and the left is striking. Here are latest figs for under-30s from the Harvard Youth Poll: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/47t…

big news that Taylor Swift has already entered the ‘late-stage Morrissey’ era of song titles