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What to drink when you're on a cloud of post-election euphoria

Vintage champagne seemed the obvious choice

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

Most of my friends are still on a cloud of post-election euphoria. There is one exception: those involved with opinion-polling. They have all the conversational self-confidence of a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland, circa Christmas 2008. I have tried to cheer them up, because there are explanations for the polls’ systemic failure.

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