On the referendum

  1. May 11, 2015

    On the Referendum #1: Gove and the Human Rights Act

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  2. May 30, 2015

    On the Referendum #2: The Lisbon Treaty compared with the Articles of Confederation & US Constitution

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  3. June 3, 2015

    On the Referendum #3: The errors of Steve Richards

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  4. June 19, 2015

    On the referendum #4: An Exploratory Committee and the beginning of a NO campaign

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  5. June 21, 2015

    On the Referendum #5: reports of an anti-EU advertising campaign; Greece, the euro, and predictions

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  6. June 23, 2015

    On the Referendum #6: Exit plans and a second referendum

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  7. June 30, 2015

    On the Referendum #7: Transparency for our Potemkin government – Memo to ministers and spads thinking about how you could help the NO campaign

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  8. July 6, 2015

    On the referendum #9: Cameron begins his renegotiation, the Commission sets out its timetable for new Treaty pre-2025, BJ & SJ make moves, a Greek ‘no’

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  9. July 6, 2015

    On the referendum #8: Unprofessional pundit – Adam Boulton

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  10. July 7, 2015

    On the referendum #10: Do you want to be a hammer or an anvil? Building a team for the NO campaign

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  11. July 20, 2015

    On the referendum #11: new ICM poll on a second referendum idea, Boris etc

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  12. August 8, 2015

    On the referendum #12: new ICM poll shows 46-36 for staying in the EU; education, BBC, propaganda, Willie Munzenberg

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  13. August 18, 2015

    On the referendum #13: new ICM poll shows growing support for Yes/In; couple of other thoughts on education and judgement

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  14. August 26, 2015

    On the referendum #14: latest ICM poll, numbers move slightly toward NO but normal variation

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  15. September 1, 2015

    On the referendum #15: Good news, Cameron changes the question – and a new poll

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  16. September 15, 2015

    On the referendum #16: New ICM poll shows differential turnout could be important, only a third support the failing EU project

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  17. September 26, 2015

    On the referendum #17: The state of the campaign

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  18. October 6, 2015

    On the referendum #18: the ECJ uses the Charter of Fundamental Rights to take more power over the UK, this is just the start

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  19. July 3, 2016

    On the referendum #19: Final message from Vote Leave HQ to our supporters

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  20. October 29, 2016

    On the referendum #20: the campaign, physics and data science – Vote Leave’s ‘Voter Intention Collection System’ (VICS) now available for all

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  21. January 9, 2017

    On the referendum #21: Branching histories of the 2016 referendum and ‘the frogs before the storm’

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  22. January 30, 2017

    On the referendum #22: Some numbers for the Vote Leave campaign

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  23. June 23, 2017

    On the referendum #23, a year after victory: ‘a change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points’ & ‘how to capture the heavens’

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  24. March 23, 2018

    On the referendum #24: Global conspiracies and a Scooby Doo ending?

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  25. March 24, 2018

    On the referendum #24C: Whistleblowers and C4/Observer accusations — they promised Watergate and delivered Zoolander

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  26. March 24, 2018

    On the referendum #24B: Whistleblowers, ‘outing’, the ECHR

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  27. March 28, 2018

    On the referendum #24D: Walter Mitty, CA, and the Guardian/Observer’s own ‘personal data harvesting’

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  28. April 26, 2018

    On the referendum #24E: Facebook proves central allegation in Observer/Channel 4 conspiracy theory is wrong

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  29. April 27, 2018

    On the referendum #24F: Another central claim of the Observer/Channel 4 conspiracy blows up

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  30. May 10, 2018

    On the referendum #24G: Grandstanding MPs and the Zoolander inquiry

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  31. May 18, 2018

    On the referendum #24H: Facebook, data science, technology, elections, and transparency

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  32. May 21, 2018

    On the referendum 24I: new research on Facebook & ‘psychographic’ microtargeting

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  33. May 23, 2018

    On the referendum #25: a letter to Tory MPs & donors on the Brexit shambles

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  34. May 24, 2018

    On the referendum #24J: Collins, grandstanding, empty threats & the plan for a rematch against the public

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  35. June 8, 2018

    On the referendum #26: How to change science funding post-Brexit [updated with comment by Alan Kay]

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  36. June 11, 2018

    On the referendum #27: Banks, Russia, conspiracies and Vote Leave

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  37. July 22, 2018

    On the referendum #24K: Observer fake news and a suggestion — I and the MPs discuss this with all of us under oath

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  38. July 27, 2018

    On referendum #24L: Fake news from the fake news committee, Carole, and a rematch against the public

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  39. July 28, 2018

    On the referendum #24M: Carole asks me questions, I answer — can MPs handle the truth?

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  40. August 8, 2018

    On the referendum #28: Some interesting stuff on AI/ML with, hopefully, implications for post-May/Hammond decisions

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  41. February 21, 2019

    On the referendum #30: Genetics, genomics, predictions & ‘the Gretzky game’ — a chance for Britain to help the world

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  42. March 1, 2019

    On the referendum #31: Project Maven, procurement, lollapalooza results & nuclear/AGI safety

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  43. March 11, 2019

    On the referendum #32: Science/productivity — a) small teams are more disruptive, b) ‘science is becoming far less efficient’

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  44. March 27, 2019

    On the referendum #24N: Actions have consequences

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  45. June 26, 2019

    On the referendum #33: High performance government, ‘cognitive technologies’, Michael Nielsen, Bret Victor, & ‘Seeing Rooms’

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  46. November 27, 2019

    On the referendum #34: BATSIGNAL!! DON’T LET CORBYN-STURGEON CHEAT A SECOND REFERENDUM WITH MILLIONS OF FOREIGN VOTES

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