Most important users of Government Cat Twitter network

A few months ago, I wrote about my own analysis of the various Twitter accounts for the UK Government cats. As I mentioned at the time, the development of social media has given us the opportunity to understand more about the government cats' public following contemporaneously. In this post, I shall focus on the makeup …

If Twitter were a country, Labour would be topping the polls

Interest in the Labour Party on Twitter seem to be growing faster than any other UK political party, according to my analysis. On 21 November, I wrote about how, despite the opinion polls, Labour have been beating the Conservatives  in terms of the number and growth of followers of Twitter. Between 9 October and 21 …

Labour beating the Tories…on Twitter

The Conservatives may be leading in the opinion polls, but the Labour Party seem to be generating more interest on Twitter. According to data collected via Twitter's API since 9 October, Labour's Twitter account has continuously had more followers than any other party. It has also seen the greatest increase in the number of followers. …

The problem with tactical voting

With weeks to go before a general election, it seems that the political parties are spending as much time telling us whom not to vote for as asking you to vote for them. The Tories warn against Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister, rather than extolling the strengths of Boris Johnson. Their argument for not voting …

Only the Tories are blocking Brexit

So we are having a general election. If Boris Johnson is to be believed, it's because Parliament is stopping the Government from "getting Brexit done". Guess what? The Tories are lying. The Tories had a chance to support Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement back in March, in a third meaningful vote. 286 MPs voted in favour …

Who is the most popular government cat?

Every now and again, a story appears in the media about the UK government cats. Most recently, it was reported that the cats may not be fulfilling their primary purpose: catching mice. But one thing they do seem to be good at catching is fans. According to National Archives records, different government cats have amassed …

Should Google be blamed for the sins of foreign news media?

Google could be in trouble with New Zealand prosecutors. It sent an email to to people signed up to its "top trends" service and named the person accused of murdering British backpacker Grace Millane, in violation of a court order. Under New Zealand law, defendants and victims can request temporary anonymity in the run-up to …

Article Published

I have written an article for KJM Today on whether it was fair or unfair of MPs to vote against a parliamentary recess during the Conservative Party conference.

The bar for mass shootings in the US is ridiculously low

There have been 239,677 incidents of gun violence between 2013 and 2018 across the United States, according to an analysis of data collected by the Gun Violence Archive, a US-based non-profit-making organisation. Gun violence incidents during this period - there is no central database before 2013 - have resulted in 60,468 deaths and 118,402 non-fatal …

Fall in UK government websites

The number of ".gov.uk" domain names has fallen year-on-year since 2011, according to an analysis of annual lists of websites released by the UK Cabinet Office. In October 2011, there were 3,771 domain names. As of October 2017, this has dropped by 833 to 2,938 domain names.   Part of the fall could probably be …