Blogspot - quizzicalgaze.blogspot.com - The Quizzical Gaze
General Information:
Latest News:
Far too good not to to broadcast 29 May 2012 | 02:18 am
This, from a South African news site, and deserving of a narrower audience: "Gauteng MEC for Local Government and Housing, Humphrey Mmemezi, used his government-issued credit card to buy an artwork w...
An antique (1912) Hansard trawl, 9 May 2012 | 01:07 am
It's been a while, hasn't it? Those wicked Americans: Mr. KING asked what number of claims arising out of telegraphic cables cut in the West Indies were preferred against the United States Governmen...
The Boris Effect pt II - with another graph. 8 May 2012 | 09:42 pm
While I wait for the ward level data, here's a bit more on the Mayoral first preference votes. This graph shows the advance or decrease in the votes for Boris or Livingstone from 2008: I have not be...
The Boris Effect - with gratuitous graphs 5 May 2012 | 10:34 pm
Until such time as the London Elects bods get around to providing ward level data and I can go to town on that, I have been fiddling around with 2008 and 2012 data to see how Boris (hurrah for his re-...
The Front National's vote share - it's a bit more complicated.... 23 Apr 2012 | 09:43 pm
Judging from news websites and the Today programme, the second lead story on the French presidential election is that Marine Le Pen's Front National scored its 'highest ever share of the vote', at 17....
Your cut out 'n' keep to London's least talented electorates 19 Apr 2012 | 12:01 am
Those nice people at London Elects have been kind enough to make ward level data from the 2008 Mayoral / LA elections available, and turnout and vote share maps having been done elsewhere I've had a g...
Pass the brain bleach 31 Mar 2012 | 03:29 am
We live in dark and terrible times - that man Galloway is back in Parliament, hot sausage rolls are VATable, newsreaders wear horrid ties and so on. And now this: Clearly spelling is no higher than, ...
Peace, love and understanding - DPRK-style 11 Mar 2012 | 01:47 am
Judging from this article at the KCNA, brotherhood betwixt the two Koreas is along the lines of the brotherhood betwixt most small children: "Meetings took place in North Hwanghae and Ryanggang Provi...
British and French in 'not arrogant' shocker 10 Mar 2012 | 01:25 am
I am indebted to the lovely people at Pew Global for making their survey on 'the American-Western European Values Gap' available online, so I've picked the best bits and knocked up another couple of c...
And the Liberals will inherit the earth, or at least a lot of EU Commissions 9 Mar 2012 | 04:24 am
For reasons too dull to divulge, I have been mulling on the EU's Commissars and noted that there are rather a lot of Liberals among them. Commissioners take a vow of political celibacy - "Having bee...
