WHY we do it
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DI Tracker – We track politicians’ and the wider public’s attitudes to development every year. This means that we can spot changes, interesting trends or worrying news well ahead of clients’ development cycles. Here is a brief summary of our most recent DI Tracker research. If you would like any further information on the wealth of data we have collated then we can provide personal briefings and presentations.
DI Monitor – In conjunction with a leading UK planning consultancy, we compare and contrast the actual decisions taken by planning committees and the Secretary of State every year. Our clients inform their future behaviour by seeing which way the politicians are moving.
What we’re reading…
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The myth of the 2017 youthquake election | British Election Study
Is Boris preparing to flounce out of the cabinet? | The Spectator
Carillion. Don’t say that Jesse Norman didn’t warn us (in a manner of speaking) | Conservative Home
The great online advertising swindle | The Spectator
Rebuff for Momentum chief as local Labour Party snubs his NEC bid | Labour List
‘A decade-long fight for the soul of the Labour party’ – how Momentum are gaining ground in Manchester | Manchester Evening News
Shame on the eco-ghouls exploiting Hurricane Harvey | The Spectator
Safe spaces and ‘ze’ badges: My bewildering year at a US university | The Spectator
Number of UK homemovers falls by 2pc – dampening market for first-time buyers | The Telegraph
Average UK house price falls by 0.9pc in August | The Telegraph
UK sees boom in number of properties smaller than 37sqm: Would you buy a ‘micro-home’? | The Telegraph
Look at Salmond for a clue to Corbyn’s fate | The Telegraph
London garden bridge project scrapped after costing public £37m | The Guardian
Top down or bottom up? How data and social media are changing political campaigning | LSE
Housing is a growing political problem for the Conservatives | The Economist
Twelve principles to unite Remainers and Leavers | Conservativehome.com
The Left will continue its resurgence so long as too many go to university | The Telegraph
More than a third of homes for sale in London have asking prices slashed | The Telegraph
Leaseholds on new-build houses in England to be banned | The Guardian
House prices continue to stall with fears a ‘fresh slowdown in London could be under way’ | The Telegraph
Jeremy Corbyn supporters demand Luciana Berger apology after winning control of Labour branch | Liverpool Echo
The truth about the global warming pause | The Spectator
Sixty-eight flats in £2bn luxury block to be given to families whose lives were devastated in Grenfell blaze | Evening Standard
Where are the right-wing masses demanding a second election? | The Spectator
‘Almost no evidence’ of London homes owned by foreign buyers being left empty | The Telegraph
Jo Swinson favourite to be new Lib Dem leader as Tim Farron quits | The Spectator
Tim Farron: Why I had to choose between Christianity or leading the Lib Dems | The Spectator
Philip Hammond’s Brexit plan is the worst of all worlds | The Spectator
How we lost Southport | Libdemvoice.org
The culture wars arrive in Britain | The Economist
Yes, the lowest paid did best under Cameron | The Spectator
Intolerant Liberals have a new target: The DUP | The Spectator
Forget Michael Gove or the rise of the Remainers. The reshuffle is about the march of the moderates | The Spectator
2017 General Election: the ten ‘Portillo moments’ to watch out for | The Spectator
Polls: Labour’s surging. Non-London doorstep: It’s a “nuclear winter for Labour.” Party braces for worst | Labour Uncut
Will turnout weighting prove to be the pollsters’ Achilles heel in #GE2017? | sotonpolitics.org
In charts: from £600 monthly profit to £200 loss – how the buy-to-let tax is biting | The Telegraph
Millions of online hits for advert attacking Cobyn | The Times
Chaotic BBC debate fails to move the dial | The Spectator
Housing is escalating up the political agenda | The Spectator
Greater Manchester development plan proves a political hot potato | Property Week
In charts: transactions are falling fast, so what will happen to house prices? | The Telegraph
Labour’s plan to ban unpaid internships will do more harm than good | The Spectator
Why have the Lib Dems stalled in the polls? | The Spectator
Salford mayor to lead ‘radical rewrite’ of Manchester spatial plan | Planning Resource
Can the Tories take Alex Salmond’s Seat? | Left foot forward
Labour set to lose four London seats to the Conservatives, new poll claims | Labour List
The rise and fall of UKIP in Wales | The Spectator
The four major flaws with Theresa Mays energy cap | The Spectator
Electoral Commission say Green-Libdem bung is matter for police | Guido Fawkes
The traditional PR agency model is dead | PR Week
‘Day of reckoning’: Corbyn launches Labour campaign in Manchester | Sky News
Election polls: What they said versus what actually happened | Sky News
The Tories hit their highest poll lead since 1983 | The Spectator
Party leaders to take part in BBC election programmes | BBC News
Government considering publishing its ‘no deal’, Brexit contingency plan | The Spectator
20 Years On: Can things only get better for Labour? | ComRes
How Theresa May could lose the general election (it’s much more likely than the media think) | Mark Pack
Tories on course to recapture heartlands | The Times
Mackintosh quits Parliament ahead of Northampton South Association vote | Conservative Home
The baffling world of Labour’s election strategy | The Spectator
Tussle for swift Labour selections shows new MPs will be central to Corbyn’s future | Labour List
Brexit: Sir Vince Cable warns of ‘second economic storm’ | Sky News
Imagining a French electoral college | The Economist
Sajid Javid quashes six planning appeals in single day | Construction News
How can Labour survive this Tory tidal wave? | The Guardian
Mirror Group settles dozens of celebrity phone-hacking claims | Sky News
Election 2017: 30 MPs at risk from a Lib Dem surge | New Statesman
Shock poll puts Tories ahead in Wales for historic win | ITV News
Why Tory MPs believe they may not win a general election landslide | NewStatesman
How Theresa May could take 58 Brexit-backing Labour seats | The Telegraph
Tim Farron is a reminder of what it actually means to be liberal | The Spectator
How this election could change British politics for a generation | The Spectator
Labour is starting its hardest election campaign | The Spectator
Can Labour Survive this general election? | The Spectator
Lib Dems to WIN General Election? Shock Daily Star poll reveals NEW challenger for power | Daily Star
The Hitler analogy has become a symbol of political ignorance | The Spectator
Emmanuel Macron is France’s Ed Miliband, not its Justin Trudeau | The Spectator
Housing market grinds to a halt | The Telegraph
Labour could lose 125 council seats and control of Scotland’s biggest cities | Labour list
The Eurocrat’s days are numbered. Now who will the Tories blame? | The Guardian
Divorce bill could be only €25bn, says think tank | The Times
The golden rule for Daily Mail hysteria | The Spectator
Who we’re following…
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