A Tale of Two Cities: great opening line, great opening paragraph
May 31, 2012 · A Tale of Two Cities: not just a great opening line, also a great opening paragraph. Even people with only the most cursory knowledge of the writings of Charles Dickens usually know about the fantastic start to A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Never having read the book, I recently decided to put ...
Local council by-election results: see them in full - Mark Pack
Council by-election results. Here’s my coverage of all the local council by-election results in Britain, updated each week as the results come in. You can track the running tally of seats changing hands in my scorecard here. I include all principal authority by-elections (i.e. borough, district, county and unitary – plus the City of London ...
Latest voting intention and leadership ratings opinion polls - Mark …
5 days ago · November 9, 2024 - 9:21 am. Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention polls for the next general election, along with party leadership ratings. If you’d like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of ...
What do the Liberal Democrats believe? - Mark Pack
Like all political philosophies, ours is based on a view of human nature. The Liberal Democrat view is an optimistic one. We believe in the essential goodness and improvability of humankind – that, given the opportunity, in most circumstances most people will choose to do good rather than harm. Liberal Democrats trust individuals to make ...
Council by-election results scorecard 2024-2025 - Mark Pack
Nov 7, 2024 · Council by-election results scorecard 2024-2025. November 7, 2024 - 11:45 pm. Here’s the tally of seats changing hands in principal authority council by-elections held between the May 2024 and the May 2025 local elections, including those held at the same time as the 2024 general election: Con. Lab.
Dr. Mark Pack's website
Liberal Democrat Newswire: monthly newsletter. The Week in Polls (once a week political polling round-up) Mark Pack blog posts and council by-election results (max 1 email/day) Lib Dem news from party website, media and Twitter (max 1 email/day) Official Lib Dem news from Scotland (max 1 email/day)
Latest PollBase is out, with all the British voting intention polls ...
Oct 12, 2024 · With the end of another, rather interesting, quarter, another update to PollBase, my database of British voting intention opinion polls since 1943 is now up.
Mark Pack's post about politics, polling and related matters
Mark. 1 Hello to my long-running Amstrad E-mailer reader. Do let me know if you are still using it! 2 Sure, a new member on their first day in the party can register for Federal Conference and, under the party’s rules, have one vote in a key policy debate, just the same as the one vote the party leader gets.
Connect (Liberal Democrat election database) - Mark Pack
This database holds the party’s records about voters, such as canvass data gathered on the doorstep and email addresses given in response to online campaigning. It was introduced after the 2010 general election to replace EARS. The Connect database system is based on the NGPVAN system used by the Democrats in the USA, including during Barack ...
An introduction to the Liberal Democrats - Mark Pack
Sep 1, 2024 · The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity. So starts the preamble to the Liberal Democrat constitution. It is a quote which works brilliantly as ...