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“The politico’s error is to see voters as particles that are acted upon by political forces…”

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My only problem with Janan Ganesh’s  piece in the FT today (and the Irish Times) is that’s not possible to quote all of it. I recommend reading it in conjunction with Martyn Turner’s Politics of Fear cartoon as the Irish commentariat works itself up about a whole lot of things that are unlikely to happen. He starts with an invitation to look back a year to look at the news stories from February 23rd, 2015, to see just how utterly beside …

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MERKY Christmas!

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Hackgate: “This may be a story for years to come…”

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So says the FT media editor Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson. It’s a good conversation, but it’s also the kind of thing we all say when we really don’t know what’s going to happen next. And there’s a good deal of impatience around this story. Last night saw an ill-tempered spat on Twitter last night, between the Labour MP Tom Watson who’s been driving a lot of the political force (in initial defiance from his party leader), and the BBC’s Robert Peston, because …

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