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Updates: the fate of Labour's 2024 vote and using AI in polls
Welcome to the 177th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which this time majors on two updates to stories from previous editions.
Sep 7
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August 2025
Polling was better than punditry right from the start
Welcome to the 176th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which dives back into the early history of political polling to recount an early win for…
Aug 31
3
Greens face biggest challenge from potential new left-wing party
Welcome to the 175th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which returns to the polling on the as-yet-unlaunched new left-wing party featuring Jeremy…
Aug 24
3
Why politicians should pay more attention to the polls
Welcome to the 174th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which goes full tilt against the common refrain that politicians pay too much attention to the…
Aug 17
2
What do the polls say about the Online Safety Act?
Welcome to the 173rd edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at the state of public opinion on an issue that has been in the news…
Aug 10
2
Tax breaks for savings and the role of opinion polling
Welcome to the 172nd edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), in which I have heroically battled to avoid the temptation to do a whole piece about Ipsos…
Aug 3
July 2025
Fragile figures? The Telegraph and polling on Islamophobia
Welcome to the 171st edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which goes back to this newsletter’s roots.
Jul 27
3
Summer reading recommendations
Welcome to the 170th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which is mainly about things you should read other than this newsletter.
Jul 20
3
Approval in adversity: two puzzles about Winston Churchill’s wartime approval ratings
Welcome to the 169th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP) which starts with both a correction and a clarification related to my analysis last week about…
Jul 13
4
Pollsters split over what's happened to Labour's 2024 vote
Welcome to the 1687th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP) which starts with sincere condolences to the family and many friends of David Lipsey, who died…
Jul 6
3
June 2025
What the gold-standard British Social Attitudes survey does - and doesn't - tell us
Welcome to the 167th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP) and a warm welcome to everyone who joined after last week’s fact checking of part of the new…
Jun 29
4
Fact checking the polling claims in a BBC documentary
Welcome to the 166th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP) which sees Ipsos return to voting intention polling and takes a dive into a BBC documentary…
Jun 22
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