The Sound of Identity
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On Thursday last week, Britain got to enjoy the nationwide electoral celebration that was ‘Super Thursday’. We then got to endure an entire weekend of thrilling, adrenaline-fuelled news coverage as England became just a bit bluer than before; Scotland a little yellower with a few flecks of green; and Wales a bit redder and a bit less pink, and ultimately we got to see by the end that nothing much had really changed. These most recent elections were, in many ways, so conventionally uninteresting they seemed to have been forgotten before they even took place (in the Hartlepool by-election, turnout was 42.7% – some 15% below the 2019 election, and in the most recent Airdrie and Shotts by-election it was as low as 34.3%).