James Kanagasooriam
@JamesKanag
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Pollster. Chief Research Officer of @focaldataHQ + Researcher @UKandEU | Board of @ukonward and @TenebraeChoir | https://t.co/29hrpARjh5
United Kingdom
Joined March 2009
Here at @focaldataHQ we’ve produced a 53,000 person survey weighted to the result on “How Britain Voted” at #GE24
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@MrRBourne Wrote about the potential for this to really blow up ‘Culturenomics’ will define new political era
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Genuinely there’s a lot to this
The need for CANZUK has never been starker
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Genuinely hard to believe that this schematic is real. I guess in Europe the legal-regulatory industrial complex has triumphed over everything else.
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A catastrophe. Nothing short of it. The politics of results needs to trump the politics of intention
"Britain lost a net 10,800 millionaires to migration last year, a 157 per cent increase on 2023, meaning it lost more wealthy residents than any other country except China."
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RT @edcumming: You lot were not joking about the passport office. Incredible. Put the passport guys in charge of everything
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Enjoyed writing this new year piece for @thetimes on celebrities and politics
Great piece by @JamesKanag on the appeal of celebrity politics. What’s so interesting about celebrities engagement with politics now is that it’s less out of touch luvvies of the past but as James says an ability to evoke a more resonant sense of Britain.
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Think this would require a 5 party (Lab, Libs, Greens, SNP, Plaid) progressive coalition/no confidence arrangement to pass legislation technically with a single digit majority
It suggests a hypothetical parliament like the below. 🌹Labour: 228 (-183) 🌳Conservatives: 222 (+101) ➡️Reform UK: 72 (+ 67) 🔶Lib Dems: 58 (-14) 🟡SNP: 37 (+28) ⬜️Independent: 8 (+3) 🌼Plaid Cymru: 4 (-) 🌍Green: 2 (-2)
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Interesting read from @keiranpedley
Long read: Starmer’s honeymoon in office was short-lived – but how does it compare to past PMs? I look into the @IpsosUK archives to identify four key lessons from history for Starmer and Labour today ✍️
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This is astonishing piece from @jburnmurdoch.
Now there's a surprise. "It turns out the apparent rise in Britain’s illness-related inactivity is not about deteriorating health, but about incentives within the benefit system". via @ft
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RT @alexwickham: Latest interaction with the broken British state Elderly relative gets @HMRCgovuk letter threatening £10-a-day fine for a…
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Great @PaddyStobbs business goes from strength to strength @stackfix
I'm thrilled to announce that @Stackfix - the software comparison platform - has raised a $3M Seed Round led by @chalfs, joined by @seedcamp and @helloworld, alongside some brilliant angel investors such as @paulforster, @matthewclifford and @Alicebentinck. When my co-founder @caminmc and I were building our previous companies, we saw firsthand just how time-consuming it is to find the right tools for your business - navigating endless options, confusing pricing, and overly pushy sales tactics. The existing 'solutions' are totally broken, as they rely on user-generated reviews, which are often out-of-date, incomplete, or paid-for by vendors. This problem is getting much worse. Advances in AI have dramatically lowered the barriers to building and updating software, leading to an explosion in the number of available tools. Traditional review-based approaches cannot keep up. Enter Stackfix. We enable businesses to compare software in seconds and be guided to the right product. Under the hood, we're building AI agents to automatically test software, which gives us live, comprehensive, and accurate information on thousands of tools. Read more about the announcement in the TechCrunch exclusive (link in the comments). Thank you @mikebutcher for the feature! 👇
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It seems like everyone else I’m starting a new, free substack about slow moving trends and politics. It’s free. Website link is below and in my bio. First post is about reimagining the political cycle
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