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In today’s episode David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about whether voting should be required by law and what might change if non-participation was no longer an option. Why have some countries made voting compulsory?

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I agree completely with this. It's precisely because of my concerns around good empirical methods that I care about questions around internal and external validity.

Ive noticed a trend in a lot of research where hasty theorisation prevents people neurally describing their measurements.

To a degree yes, but it also depends how you operationalise your measures, right.

If you categorise (say) responses to a questionnaire as only falling under one value axis, youve begged the question that there is only one value!

!! Concerning

Yiu have spoken truth

Here’s a mugshot of an incompetent, drug addled narcissist. He insisted the charges against him were trumped up.

Rather than to represent where political values sit against an established measure.

I dont know if my idea was that I can do better, but I certainly think there are more than two value-axis along which people politically disagree.

I assumed that this project was an attempt to represent that in some way.

If you want to add me to a repo or something so I can look later: github.com/NathOrmond (or feel free to dm)

I have a recent DBS check if that helps.

The reason I ask is because I made an assumption about what you were trying to do as being to question the validity of the political compass as a measure and create a more useful scale normalised against the actual "overton window" or whatever

Will have to make a full comment later sorry - is there any way to see the full dataset (or at least the schema)?

Are you sure a 2d graph is the best visualisation tool?

Presumably you would want something that scales depending on how views compare with each other?

After nearly 1,500 years, the see of Canterbury has its first female archbishop.

Congratulations to Sarah Mullally! And good luck - she's going to need it!

Sad news about such a pioneer and legend who did so much for animal protection and scientific research - and was the very best of us. RIP

Captain Co-Worker

People are leaning towards the @greenparty.org.uk because they show vision, integrity & courage. They have plans for unity rather than division, for protecting rather than suppressing human rights, for a more equal society & for a rapid move from fossil fuels. Labour’s failings serve as a contrast.

Absolutely right from Streeting.

But then government/Mahmood need to make crystal clear this applies to people who have arrived since 2021 and are working in NHS/care right now -and that government is not going to change the rules and leave them at the mercy of a future Reform/Conservative govt

Zack Polanski slams government's 'unpaid labour' scheme

Polanski described it as 'deplorable... this is a dark path Labour is going down. But there IS an alternative...'
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Everything makes sense, if theres money to be made from it

We need to make the number higher!!!

It never did deplore them. They imagined them in their enemies because they were projecting but were always an illiberal and authoritarian extremist party.

Such a crazy and amazing experience to be on a podcast of which I'm a huge fan!

In my opinion, they think what they do about what they say is "islamic doctrine" more as a matter of projection.