Quentin Langley is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Bedfordshire Business School. He has previously taught PR and Political Communications at London Metropolitan and Cardiff Universities. Follow Quentin on Twitter. It is perhaps surprising that there has been no unforced reshuffle with the second anniversary of the coalition only weeks away. It […]
Quentin Langley is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Bedfordshire Business School. He has previously taught PR and Political Communications at London Metropolitan and Cardiff Universities. Let us start with the obvious point: the UK deserves a real second chamber. The less obvious, but nonetheless accurate, point is that we do not […]
Quentin Langley studied politics at Plymouth under Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher. He now teaches public relations at London Metropolitan University. We need a new way of projecting opinion poll results into election results. In the past there have been two: the uniform swing hypothesis (USH) and proportional loss hypothesis (PLH). I have written about […]
Quentin Langley read Politics under Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher at the University of Plymouth and now teaches Public Relations and Political Communications at Cardiff University. It is a bit early in the new loving and friendly relationship to be asking this, but what is the point of the Lib Dems? Any party or product […]
Quentin Langley read Politics under Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher at the University of Plymouth and now teaches Public Relations and Political Communications at Cardiff University. A realistic look at electoral reform has to start from a number of premises, most of which are fairly obvious, but need to be thought through. First, judgments about […]
Quentin Langley read Politics under Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher at the University of Plymouth and now teaches Public Relations and Political Communications at Cardiff University. At first glance the polls seem extremely volatile and difficult to read. At second glance, this is only partly so. Nearly all the recent polls have shown the Conservatives […]
Quentin Langley read Politics under Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher at the University of Plymouth and now teaches Public Relations and Political Communications at Cardiff University. There is a widespread belief that the Conservatives must achieve an enormous swing at the next election to win a majority – much bigger than at any election other […]
Quentin Langley is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Bedfordshire Business School. He has previously taught PR and Political Communications at London Metropolitan and Cardiff Universities. Follow Quentin on Twitter. Polling suggested the 1975 referendum on Europe would be close, but the result was a 2:1 victory for “yes”. In 1979 polls […]