On the referendum
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May 11, 2015
On the Referendum #1: Gove and the Human Rights Act
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May 30, 2015
On the Referendum #2: The Lisbon Treaty compared with the Articles of Confederation & US Constitution
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June 3, 2015
On the Referendum #3: The errors of Steve Richards
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June 19, 2015
On the referendum #4: An Exploratory Committee and the beginning of a NO campaign
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June 21, 2015
On the Referendum #5: reports of an anti-EU advertising campaign; Greece, the euro, and predictions
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June 23, 2015
On the Referendum #6: Exit plans and a second referendum
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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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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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July 6, 2015
On the referendum #8: Unprofessional pundit – Adam Boulton
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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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July 20, 2015
On the referendum #11: new ICM poll on a second referendum idea, Boris etc
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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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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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August 26, 2015
On the referendum #14: latest ICM poll, numbers move slightly toward NO but normal variation
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September 1, 2015
On the referendum #15: Good news, Cameron changes the question – and a new poll
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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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September 26, 2015
On the referendum #17: The state of the campaign
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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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July 3, 2016
On the referendum #19: Final message from Vote Leave HQ to our supporters
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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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January 9, 2017
On the referendum #21: Branching histories of the 2016 referendum and ‘the frogs before the storm’
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January 30, 2017
On the referendum #22: Some numbers for the Vote Leave campaign
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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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March 23, 2018
On the referendum #24: Global conspiracies and a Scooby Doo ending?
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March 24, 2018
On the referendum #24C: Whistleblowers and C4/Observer accusations — they promised Watergate and delivered Zoolander
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March 24, 2018
On the referendum #24B: Whistleblowers, ‘outing’, the ECHR
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March 28, 2018
On the referendum #24D: Walter Mitty, CA, and the Guardian/Observer’s own ‘personal data harvesting’
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April 26, 2018
On the referendum #24E: Facebook proves central allegation in Observer/Channel 4 conspiracy theory is wrong
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April 27, 2018
On the referendum #24F: Another central claim of the Observer/Channel 4 conspiracy blows up
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May 10, 2018
On the referendum #24G: Grandstanding MPs and the Zoolander inquiry
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May 18, 2018
On the referendum #24H: Facebook, data science, technology, elections, and transparency
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May 21, 2018
On the referendum 24I: new research on Facebook & ‘psychographic’ microtargeting
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May 23, 2018
On the referendum #25: a letter to Tory MPs & donors on the Brexit shambles
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May 24, 2018
On the referendum #24J: Collins, grandstanding, empty threats & the plan for a rematch against the public
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June 8, 2018
On the referendum #26: How to change science funding post-Brexit [updated with comment by Alan Kay]
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June 11, 2018
On the referendum #27: Banks, Russia, conspiracies and Vote Leave
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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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July 27, 2018
On referendum #24L: Fake news from the fake news committee, Carole, and a rematch against the public
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July 28, 2018
On the referendum #24M: Carole asks me questions, I answer — can MPs handle the truth?
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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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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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March 1, 2019
On the referendum #31: Project Maven, procurement, lollapalooza results & nuclear/AGI safety
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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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March 27, 2019
On the referendum #24N: Actions have consequences
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June 26, 2019
On the referendum #33: High performance government, ‘cognitive technologies’, Michael Nielsen, Bret Victor, & ‘Seeing Rooms’
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November 27, 2019
On the referendum #34: BATSIGNAL!! DON’T LET CORBYN-STURGEON CHEAT A SECOND REFERENDUM WITH MILLIONS OF FOREIGN VOTES