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So 1 of 3 things must be true. 1) National polls are underestimating Harris support & Midwest polls are correct, or 2) National polls are correct & Midwest polls continue to underestimate R support as in 2016 & 2020 or 3) Midwest states have trended left. Choose your fighter

Who and what is the Clerk of the Parliaments? 🔍

Data nerds! Commons Library has published General election 2024: results and analysis full briefing. It has many interesting documents - an afternoon of Excel spreadsheets awaits … commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

The Diplomat conducted a long interview with Ishiba Shigeru, Japan's new PM designate last year. Lots of interesting material, especially on his views of Article 9 of the constitution (often said to commit Japan to "pacifism") thediplomat.com/2023/12/the-en…

I published a briefing yesterday on Bangladesh, including the fall of the Hasina Government and the challenges facing the new interim government. With a healthy of dose of political history, if that's your thing. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

The Commons Library is looking to recruit an expert on UK finance and company policy. Core tasks are to answer questions from MPs and their staff and produce published material for debates and general reading. tinyurl.com/33jvvyfh

To mark the 15th anniversary of the UK Supreme Court, Commons Library researchers met with Lord Reed to present their briefing on the origins, role, regulation and legacy of the institution and its judges. This briefing is available to everyone online: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

This is exactly what happened when I used Euston last month, got annoyed I couldn't see train departures, went to find smaller screen. But despite less clutter on concourse then before still felt dangerously crowded. Also felt they had hidden M&S, is that part of the plan too?

Really good list, only missing when you walk through the barriers to exit, do not stop. If you need to work out where you are, take several more steps until you're clear of the people exiting behind you.

So, this afternoon I got home to find a lovely letter from NORTHERN 🚆 telling me about how they wanted to prosecute me for using the below ticket to travel on the specified route at a peak time. I paid £1.90 less than the fare they say I should have paid. A thread 🧵

I was born at midnight 40 years ago. On the cusp. My parents chose the 25th to give me a 3 rather than a 2 day gap between me and my nearest sister’s birthday. A wise choice. So here it is. I can offer no words of wisdom, as that hasn’t arrived yet. There’s always tomorrow.

Can confirm the budget had unleashed huge growth…. in the crowds outside the Two Chairmen

How did it come to this? Some thoughts on the tragedy of Germany's "Ampel" (traffic-light 🔴🟢🟡) SPD-Green-FDP coalition, and on what must come next: politico.eu/article/german…

Just published a briefing on the BRICS group with a focus on its recent expansion and what that might mean, and looking at some of the outcomes of the recent Kazan summit in Russia commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

Now that the Defence Committee is back up and running, a reminder that Commons Library has published a handy list of all the Defence Committee reports since May 2010. Plus a list of defence-related reports from the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

You don’t get to call them ‘snap elections’ if they’re triggered in November and don’t take place till February. ‘Early’, please

This communiqué (which I’m pretty sure has only just been published, despite the date) appears to confirm that the “Council of the Nations & Regions” is simply a new way of referring to the existing Prime Minister and Heads of Devolved Governments Council gov.uk/government/pub…

Just published a briefing looking at developments in Thai politics since the May 2023 election. Includes the ban on Move Forward & the removal of PM Srettha Thavisin by the Constitutional Court in August 2024 & the return of Thaksin Shinawatra commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

Because I like a challenge, I’ve spent the past year or so “mapping” (or perhaps summarising) the UK constitution in this new Commons Library research briefing: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief… 1/2

We've just updated our impartial research briefing on the UK steel industry. Get the facts with statistics on the UK and international steel industry, government policy on steel and more ahead of tomorrow's recall debate: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…