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The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant link)

1. Polls can shape reality, not just reflect it. The pollsters and the media have to make decisions based on public opinion – but those decisions can then shape us.
2. England’s awkward answer to the West Lothian Question
3. What does history suggest will happen in the polls? Encouragingly for Cameron, since 1979 the party in power has often won support in the year before the election.
4. Have the Greens really overtaken the Lib Dems in the polls?
5. You want constitutional change? Fixed-term parliaments have already done the job. Why our politics could be in chaos after the next election
6. Scottish independence referendum: what we learned about bookies vs pollsters.
7. The Tories lie about the NHS in Wales to distract us from what they’re doing in England
8. Middle-class families hit by Labour’s mansion tax. Ed Miliband faces criticism over his plans for a ‘mansion tax’ from Labour MPs in London who say policy is ‘dysfunctional and misconceived’
9. Why did Britain’s political class buy into the Tories’ economic fairytale?Falling wages, savage cuts and sham employment expose the recovery as bogus. Without a new vision we’re heading for social conflict
10. Tackling tax avoidance should be a top manifesto issue 
11. Ukip does deal with far-right, racist Holocaust-denier to save EU funding. 
12. Parliament has more important priorities than this spiffwaddle
13. Blind defenders of ‘free movement’ sound like US gun nuts
14. Turkey in Europe? Now there’s a migrant backlash waiting to happen
15. France to use Britain’s ‘illegal’ plans to cut EU migrant numbers
16. Prison whistleblowers being threatened with dismissal
17. ITV News Called Ed Miliband The “Labour Party Lady”
18. “UKIP Calypso” Might Be The Most Cringeworthy Political Anthem Ever
19. Yesterday was the 2,216th anniversary of the Battle of Zama, when Hannibal despite outnumbering his opponent, was exposed as the inept and overrated military commander most people knew him to be.
20. Today is the 41st anniversary of the Saturday Night Massacre.
21. Tomorrow is the 209th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.