Even excluding people themselves, the biomass of domesticated mammals exceeds that of the wild sort by a factor of 14 econ.st/3BWurOB

How Macron did it - running up the score in the big cities and among tertiary educated voters. Interestingly, he also did better among older people - I guess this is to do with Le Pen not coming from a mainstream conservative party. theguardian.com/world/2022/apr…

NEW: for this week’s column I dug into the curious case of British attitudes to immigration Before the EU ref, concern about immigration tracked levels of arrivals. Since then, immigration has kept rising but concerns have evaporated What’s going on? ft.com/content/f2d72f…

What an extraordinary map of Melbourne from the Sunday Age. The Liberal Party all but wiped out

Not everything in here moved - but many of the most remarkable results are on this list

Avg 2pp swing to Labor by AEC socio_dem in fully counted 2pps. Includes teal and Grn seats. Second table is only across classic seats (with full 2pp counts).

This is kind of cool - my op-ed from 3 years ago has made its way into Katharine Murphy’s Quarterly Essay.

‘a disgruntled community member has created a rival, user-friendly website called "Love Me Tender".’ lol abc.net.au/news/2024-06-1…

Love Me Tender also got a mention on p. 10 of the recent Senate Enquiry into Consulting parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/downl…

An irrepressible outbreak of national optimism is about to arrive in Britain. Cool Britannia mark II - you heard it here first

Great summary of how we got here from the bard of our times Hans van Leeuwen afr.com/world/europe/w…

Once in a lifetime experience - voted in two countries’ elections on the same day

How London voted. The final constituency to declare (Hendon) came down to just 15 votes! londonist.com/london/politic…

Labour is less popular in the Red Wall than in 2019 when Jeremy Corbyn was leader, losing 17,000 votes overall Despite winning almost all of these seats, there's been little change in their overall support

So on the one hand, Euros is the Commonwealth Games of soccer - exclude the best team in the world so that someone else can win

On the other, if England does win it will definitely boost my ‘Cool Britannia mark II’ narrative

This is a great yarn 7news.com.au/sport/afl/afl-…

Also, I am treating Oasis 2025 as a clear vindication of the Cool Britannia Mark II hypothesis