Mark Pack

A common thread running through the Press Complaints Commission’s defence of its work is that it has been primarily created to deal with individual complaints, rather than being a regulator whose role is to improve the press overall. That’s why, for example, the PCC emphasises the proportion of complaints made to it which are concluded [...] »

Take a look at this great post comparing the Scottish and English versions of The Sun. »

Only one in five voters think David Cameron should try to form a minority government if his party is the largest but short of an overall majority after Thursday’s general election. The finding comes in a YouGov poll for The Sun which finds that 37% think in such circumstances Cameron should try to form a “grand [...] »

I've been running a little series of posts over on Liberal Democrat Voice about poll questions that newspapers have paid for but not reported (see here, here and here). A degree of that is inevitable - after all, it's fair enough to ask a range of questions to see which give a newsworthy answer as [...] »

There’s this: All the main parties have promised to cut the government’s deficit after the election. Which party do you think is being the most honest about what spending cuts they would make to deliver this? Liberal Democrats 29% Conservatives 26% Labour 21% … and then there’s this: Gordon Brown was challenged on Wednesday morning by Gillian Duffy, a 65-year-old voter [...] »

A poll carried out exclusively for Lib Dem Voice shows that opposition from the Daily Mail, The Sun and Daily Telegraph to the Liberal Democrats actually makes people more likely to vote for the party. Asked the impact on their voting intention of those papers opposing Nick Clegg becoming Prime Minister, 15% said it made them [...] »

In the past if you read something in a newspaper that you disagreed with, that was pretty much it. A very small number of people were moved to write to the paper and a few very rarely moved to stop buying it. But it was essentially a personal, private matter - grumble a bit, mention [...] »

There’s straight-forward good news for the Liberal Democrats in today’s Daily Mail: A Harris poll for the Daily Mail, the first in-depth survey of the public response, showed him decisively ahead of David Cameron and Gordon Brown on measures of energy, honesty and strength. The survey of over 1,000 people who watched the clash found 32 [...] »

Continuing my occasional series of opinion poll results that newspapers have paid for but then not published (all for reasons of space you understand, nothing to do with editorial lines and not liking the result, oh no of course not) we have the latest YouGov poll for The Sun: Do you think the following will or [...] »

Weirdness is in the eye of the beholder of course. But I think I’m on safe ground on this one. Cast your mind over the many things Gordon Brown has and hasn’t done. Plenty to criticise. Plenty of criticisms made. But what did The Sun wheel out yesterday? In amongst the story about his letter-with-spelling-mistakes to a dead soldier’s [...] »