Never Mind The Bar Charts

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts takes a look back to the five criteria for success that Professor Tim Bale set out for opposition leaders and considers how they played out by the end of the 2024 general election. Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes Our original discussion of five tests for opposition partiesDecember 2020March 2022December 2022Some of those Ed Davey stuntslosing support in Surrey and Londonsize of Lib Dem majoritiescampaign ratingsSurvey of Conservative membershipTim Bale on X/TwitterHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show's most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word www.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is another special with John Potter and the Lib Dem Pod, looking at all the latest from the election campaign. Show notes The More in Common polling I mentionLib Dem PodHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show's most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word www.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is another special with John Potter and the Lib Dem Pod, looking at all the latest from the election campaign with Lib Dem peer Liz Barker and Lib Dem candidate David Chadwick. Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes The Lib Dem manifestoThe election timetableDavid Chadwick's campaignHow we decide where to ask people to campaignLib Dem PodHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show's most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word www.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is another team-up with the Lib Dem podcast, taking a look at the general election, mulling over Nigel Farage's entrance and hearing about how a Dalek got canvassed. Appearing on the show is Victoria Collins. The constituency she is standing in includes the village of Aldbury, often used in TV and films, including for Doctor Who and The Avengers. Show notes Victoria CollinsAldburyDaleks nearly advertised Hamlet CigarsLib Dem PodHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show's most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word www.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts saw a return for the Professor of Political Leafleting, the Lady of the Leaflets, Professor Caitlin Milazzo. She's one of the top experts on what election candidates put in their leaflets and why. So just the person to talk with as even more leaflets are headed to people's letterboxes for the general election. Show notes Open Elections websiteHow are political leaflets changing (and do they work)?Negative campaigning in political leaflets: what the evidence saysPerceived Negativity in British General Election CommunicationsPersonal, policy and partisanship: Understanding voter reactions to campaign negativityHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show's most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word www.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is another team-up with John Potter and the Lib Dem Pod team. This time we were joined by Bill Revans, leader of the largest elected Lib Dem group in the country, to talk about the start of the general election. Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes Lib Dem PodHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show's most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word www.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is another joint venture with The Lib Dem Pod, taking a look at the 2024 local elections. Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes The Week in PollsThe Lib Dem PodTribute to Andrew StunellLocal election results in PrestonThe 2024 local election resultsHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show’s most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word www.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

Never Mind The Bar Charts took an unexpected turn when I was discussing the track record of polls closing in previous Parliaments with Professor Will Jennings. One of the most dramatic such examples was with Jeremy Corbyn in 2017... so perhaps he should be the role model for Rishi Sunak as he looks to rescue the Conservatives? Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes Have the polls closed in previous Parliaments?What are MRPs and can we trust them?Voting intention by supermarketnewsletter from Will JenningsHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show’s most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word www.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

Something completely different to the usual fare this time: a little while back I picked my five favourite spy novels for the Spybrary podcast. For a variation from the usual Never Mind The Podcasts fare, take a listen to what I picked, and why those in politics so often like spy stories: Anthony Price features, of course. As does (ssssh! former spy) Paddy Ashdown and US President Lyndon B Johnson, subject of perhaps the best non-fiction book and one with a brilliant narrator too. In coincidental related news, I discovered recently that the author of the standard book on the history of the early years of campaigning for proportional representation was a Communist, and possibly a Russian spy. The author is Jennifer Hart and the book is Proportional Representation: Critics of the British Electoral System 1820-1945. Show notes The Spybrary PodcastThe Spybrary Facebook groupHugo LeePexels.comtips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show’s most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word www.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is another by-election special with the Lib Dem Pod team, talking about what to make of the latest set of Parliamentary by-elections. Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes The by-election resultsThe Lib Dem pre-manifestoThe Lib Dem Pod team on YouTubeHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show’s most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word www.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts features Southwark councillor Rachel Bentley on what it's like being a councillor, the difference you can make to improve people's lives, the disappointments of Sadiq Khan, life campaigning against Labour and, of course, her love of pointing. Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes The Bentley RampRachel Bentley on X/TwitterHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show’s most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word www.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

Professor Kate Dommett is one of the UK’s absolute top rank experts on political campaigning, data and the internet. So who better to have back on Never Mind The Bar Charts to talk about how parties use data and what the next general election might bring? Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes AmazonWaterstonesindependent bookshopsthe impact of Cambridge AnalyticaUsing a Personality-Profiling Algorithm to Investigate Political Microtargeting: Assessing the Persuasion Effects of Personality-Tailored Ads on Social MediaThe small effects of political advertising are small regardless of context, message, sender, or receiver: Evidence from 59 real-time randomized experimentsthe effects of different campaign tacticswhat data US campaigners really useGround Wars – Personalized Communications in Political CampaignsWhat really happens at the grassroots when political parties push new ways of campaigning?using Zoom for politicshow Pokémon GO was used by some Lib DemsKate Dommett and John Curtice talks for the Political Studies AssociationKate Dommett on X/TwitterHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show's most popular previous episodes * Affiliate links which generate a commission for sales.

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts welcomed back Duncan Brack for another of our reviews of previous party leaders. This time, it’s Charles Kennedy we took a look at. Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes Greg Hurst’s biographyCharles Kennedy on Have I Got News For You1983 TV report on his first electionlessons from Charles Kennedy’s leadershiptribute to Charles KennedyThe Lib Dem History GroupDuncan Brack on TwitterHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show’s most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word www.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is another special with the Lib Dem Pod team. We talked about a year of Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister and lessons from the Mid Bedfordshire by-election. Listen carefully also to spot a little Easter Egg from me... Show notes The Lib Dem PodHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show’s most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word on Twitterwww.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

I've been honoured to have many great guests on Never Mind The Bar Charts but wow... this time's guest really blew me away with his moving life story and with the thought of just how exciting it would be to see him on the national political stage. Come take a listen and meet Josh Babarinde from Eastbourne. Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes The sunniest town in the UKThe kayak tipping incidentX/TwitterInstagramHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show's most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word on Twitterwww.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts features Paula Surridge once again, who since last time has been promoted to Professor - congratulations! We talk about what's driving British politics, whether the Conservatives can win next time - and what lessons she sees in the data for the Liberal Democrats. Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes the role of valuesLib Dem win in Tiverton & Honitonhow Boris Johnson won the 2019 general electionHow the polls can be wrong - but why you should still pay attention to themBritish Social Attitudes Surveymoderate pitch of Mrs Thatcher in 1979Labour winning power would change the terms of British politicswas aboutThe long-term liberalisation of BritainAmazonWaterstonesBookshop.orgPaula Surridge on Twitter/XHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show's most popular previous episodes * This list includes affiliate links which generate a commission for each sale made. Enjoy the show? Spread the word on Twitterwww.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

It took decades of campaigning for Prohibition campaigners to win in the US, getting alcohol banned in the early twentieth century. Once they'd won, their victory seemed set to last. Yet in less than a decade and a half their victory had been undone and the the idea killed off politically. So can pro-Europeans take heart from drawing parallels between Prohibition and Brexit? Find out in the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts as I discuss this with Professor Ben Ansell who has just written a great piece comparing Prohibition and Brexit. Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes Brexit's 21st Amendment: Can the Rejoin campaign learn anything from the End of Prohibition?the political value of honeyPlastic bags chaos looms ... Supermarkets are braced for chaos and confusionPolling on EuropeAmazonWaterstonesBookshop.orgTwitterThreadsPexels.comHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show's most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word on Twitterwww.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com * Affiliate links.

So wrote John Curtice after the latest record-breaking Parliamentary by-election by the Liberal Democrats. Who better therefore to discuss how happy Liberal Democrats should be after Sarah Dyke's victory than Frome-born political scientist and podcast favourite, Professor Tim Bale? Hear what Tim and I made of all three of the recent Parliamentary by-elections in the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts. Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes quite a few Lib Dem leaflets in Somerton and FromeLib Dem alternative on ULEZpredictive power of Parliamentary by-electionsLiberal Democrat Yellow Halo of supportWhat issues most concern voters?Tim Bale on TwitterHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show’s most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word on Twitterwww.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com

Florian Foos has worked with eight different political parties in five different countries carrying out field experiments to test what does and doesn't work in election campaigning. So I invited him on Never Mind The Bar Charts to talk about what both his research and that of others reveals. Show notes How Much GOTV Mail is Too Much? Results from a Large-Scale Field ExperimentAmazonBookshop.orgWaterstonesby finding common valuesbefriending rather than demonising peoplesceptical of the impact of deep canvassingFlorian Foos on TwitterHugo LeeNathan CopleyPixabaytips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show's most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word on Twitterwww.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com * Affiliate links

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts features Sam Freedman, talking about his recent excellent article on why apparently obvious policy ideas keep on being talked about, but not getting implemented. What's going on? Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes The Policy Paradox: The more obvious an idea is the less likely it will happenOffice for Spending Evaluationthe Institute for Government's induction sessions for new ministersShelter report on housingHow Keith House and colleagues get houses built in EastleighSam Freedman's email newsletterSam Freedman on TwitterHugo Leetips on how to listen to podcastsCheck out some of this show's most popular previous episodes Enjoy the show? Spread the word on Twitterwww.NeverMindTheBarCharts.com