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Nigel Hawkes :: Tue, 18/05/2010 - 14:34

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Good polls, poorly reported

Opinion polls fell thick and fast during the General Election. At times political correspondents appeared to be clinging to them like drowning men to a leaky life raft.

Nigel Hawkes :: Mon, 17/05/2010 - 11:24

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Committing Hari-Kiri with a blunt statistic

Many people have pored over the election result, trying to suck meaning from its indeterminate outcome.

Nigel Hawkes :: Tue, 04/05/2010 - 14:02

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Notional seats in Wales provoke a row

The BBC’s coverage of the General Election in Wales has triggered an angry response from the Mayor of Caernarfon, Councillor Hywel Roberts.

Rishab Mehan :: Sun, 02/05/2010 - 14:45

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A close look at LibDem claims on pensioner poverty

Pensioners are a favourite group at election-time, some might say for cynical reasons.

Nigel Hawkes :: Fri, 30/04/2010 - 16:26

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Daily Mirror gets its pies in a twist

The Daily Mirror, still pushing hard for a Labour victory, has been a trifle dishonest in its presentation of the polling evidence.

Nigel Hawkes :: Thu, 29/04/2010 - 17:35

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Gordon Brown's dubious immigration claims

In Gordon Brown’s now infamous conversation with Gillian Duffy, the widow from Rochdale whom he described as “a sort of bigoted woman” he said: “A million people have c

Rishab Mehan :: Wed, 28/04/2010 - 09:59

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Class sizes: a key pledge unmet

One issue in this election seems to hark back to 1997: school class sizes. Then it was one of Labour’s key manifesto pledges to cut class sizes to less than 30 for all five, six and

Rishab Mehan and Nigel Hawkes :: Mon, 26/04/2010 - 09:12

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Immigration: a debate crippled by a lack of accurate data

Immigration has emerged as one of the major themes of the election, and one of the few where there are clear dividing lines between the parties.

Rishab Mehan :: Thu, 22/04/2010 - 09:39

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ID cards sinking in a wave of apathy

Meg Hillier MP, Minister for Identity, was right when she said, “Whenever identity cards are mentioned it's always been with the word ‘controversial’.”

Nigel Hawkes :: Wed, 21/04/2010 - 12:58

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Cameron’s questionable cancer drug claims

Is David Cameron right to claim that people are dying because they cannot get access to cancer drugs?