Like a Blanket of Snow – Why UKIP did so Poorly
Given the kind of headlines we’ve had over the past 48 hours, I wanted to explore why it was so hard to predict how many seats UKIP would have picked up on Thursday. If you look down my blog, you’ll …
Author: Peter Ould
Election Results – Initial Analysis
We’ve had six councils declared overnight and the results are showing a definite pattern. Although the UKIP vote is rising quite dramatically across the country, it’s not rising in a targeted manner. Where UKIP have previously not contested a seat they have …
2013 Local Elections – Predictions
I have taken the local elections opinion poll from ComRes (published on the 30th of April) and looked at how the projected share of the vote converts into local county council and unitary authority seats. I have also examined the …
Jersey – Dean Reinstated
This from the Diocese of Winchester this morning. THE VERY REVEREND ROBERT KEY, the Dean of Jersey, has today apologised for mistakes in the handling of a safeguarding complaint and added his own apology to that of the Bishop of …
Review – There is a Season
Can children do liturgy? Well according to Margaret Pritchard Houston yes they can and she’s written a book to prove it. Through a number of creative non-Eucharistic liturgies, “There is a Season” maps out how churches and schools can celebrate key …
Self-Promotion
As with all these things, sound-bites don’t capture nuance, but it was a fun interview to do and the picture is quite cool. Why did you become a priest? I had a growing sense of God calling me into full-time …