To the Editor of the Manchester Mercury. Sir, — Not doubting but a few remarks connected with the unfortunate people for whom the Rev. Mr. Lyons is now with us soliciting aid, will, with a descriptive sketch of that interesting portion of Ireland, prove acceptable, permit me, as a feeble…

Before my current post, I worked at an institution where quite a few of the students were ‘clean eaters’. I joined the institution fairly early on in the trend. I was both impressed and appalled at the self-control needed to maintain not only a vegan diet, but one which excluded…

In January, as a New Year’s resolution, I decided I would finally do something self-improving that wasn’t working on a paper. I had bought a violin years ago and thought it might as well be that. A family member had been dramatically unwell, which is very focusing. I knew I…

Siobhan McAndrew, University of Bristol and Paul Widdop, Leeds Beckett University Whether jazz is relatively closed to women — serving as a genre and space primarily for men, with exceptions for vocalists — has been widely-discussed in both the jazz and scholarly communities in recent years. Women, The Legends &…

Labour Conference is currently underway. Constituency Labour Party groups (CLPs, or local organisations at the parliamentary constituency level) fund ‘footsoldier’ members to attend the annual meeting, alongside ordinary members attending independently, trade union and affiliated organisation delegates, and the political, policy and journalism professionals for whom attendance is part of…

The results of the 2017 General Election have been extraordinary, and it’s vital to understand how far the radical remaking of the Labour Party from 2015 may have been responsible. A Conservative landslide was expected at the start of the campaign; the result was a hung Parliament, against all expectations. …

Results of multinomial logistic regression predicting Labour Party membership type among BES sample of respondents participating in each of Waves 6, 8 and 10 who reported Labour membership on at least one of those occasions. N = 741. Return to main story.

I’ve read Chris Hanretty’s blog on party support among higher education professionals — and before that, Noah Carl’s report for the Adam Smith Institute — with great interest. A higher proportion of higher education teachers and professionals than the population at large support Labour and the Greens, consistently so over…

A discussion about this bubbled up last night as to whether and how Twitter can be useful. …