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6 Nations #9 – Who will win in 2018? – Week 2

February 9, 2018 By Nigel Marriott

The 2018 6 Nations is underway and all of my predictions for week 1 turned out to be correct (just!) with the help of an amazing drop goal drop goal by Johnny Sexton.  This means that out of 37 matches I have used rankings to make predictions, 30 have been correct.

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UK Weather Tracker #12 – January 2018

February 9, 2018 By Nigel Marriott

Every time I went online in January, I would find a headline promising an extreme cold snap in the UK which never materialised.  I’ve grown tired and cynical of these headlines and given that the latest met office data shows that January 2018 was completely unremarkable, I think I am justified in this attitude! [Read more…] about UK Weather Tracker #12 – January 2018

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6 Nations #8 – Who will win in 2018? – Week 1

February 2, 2018 By Nigel Marriott

The 2018 6 Nations begins tomorrow and fans will be looking forward to a feast of rugby for the next two months.  As always, pundits galore are making their predictions and the one thing we can count on is that some will have egg on their faces by the time it is over.  In 2017, I used World Rugby’s Rankings to predict who would win each match in the 6 Nations and the Autumn Internationals and these predictions worked out well with 12 out of 15 6 Nations games and 15 out of the 19 Autumn International matches involving 6 Nations teams correctly called.

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UK Opinion Poll Tracker #10 – January 2018

February 2, 2018 By Nigel Marriott

Labour continues to hold a small lead over the Conservatives at the start of 2018.   Little has changed from the end of 2017.

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UK Opinion Poll Tracker #9 – December 2017

January 13, 2018 By Nigel Marriott

Labour continues to hold a small lead over the Conservatives as the nation entered the Christmas holidays.  There is evidence of some voter movement towards UKIP which indicates that their true national level is around 4% or 5% and their General Election performance was distorted by so many of their candidates standing down.

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UK Weather Tracker #11 – December 2017

January 13, 2018 By Nigel Marriott

My latest UK weather tracker shows that December 2017 was the only month of 2017 to set a new UK weather record with the lowest rain intensity recorded in December. [Read more…] about UK Weather Tracker #11 – December 2017

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UK Weather Trends #3 – Autumn 2017

December 16, 2017 By Nigel Marriott

Meteoologists define autumn in the UK to be the period from September to November so autumn is now over and we are officially in winter.  The 2017 autumn was completely unremarkable but this hides the fact that our autumnal climate has changed quite notably over the last 25 years.

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UK Weather Tracker #10 – November 2017

December 10, 2017 By Nigel Marriott

My latest UK weather tracker shows that the November 2017 was the 9th brightest on record which is some comfort for those that curse the onset of dark evenings with the change of clocks.

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UK Opinion Poll Tracker #8 – November 2017

December 3, 2017 By Nigel Marriott

Labour’s 2 point lead over the Conservatives disappeared during November and they now hold a very slight lead.  There is evidence of some voter movement towards UKIP which indicates that their true national level is around 4% or 5% and their General Election performance was distorted by so many of their candidates standing down.

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Autumn Internationals #3 – Who will win in 2017? – Week 3

November 24, 2017 By Nigel Marriott

The third round of the Autumn Internationals take place this weekend and for nearly all nations that will be the end of the action.  For the last two weeks, I used World Rugby’s Rankings to predict who will win and to set expectations for each nation for the whole series and my predictions have worked out well with 11 out of the 12 matches involving 6 Nations teams correctly called.  This performance is consistent with a similar set of predictions I made for the 2017 6 Nations where I correctly called 12 out of 15 games.

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