Informative Political Resources Thread

It's quite important to myself, and I hope everyone who contributes to a political discussion subform of an entertainment forum that anything we're talking about is based in reality and facts, and not based on the narrative we've heard from a tabloid rag or some influencer with a bad faith agenda.

I'm going to pin this thread, and essentially I want the first post to be a list of ordered links to useful political sites such as legislation, parliament specific, credible and/or specialist news sites, studies, infographics, anything else that might be useful to consult in debates. How useful it is, remains to be seen, but a one-stop linking shop of a pinned thread can at times be quite useful. And of course even if some of these links may be obvious to political veterans, that (hopefully) isn't all we have browsing this forum and it'd be great to share the resources we use.

It can be a work in progress and collaborative. I will keep this topic open, but only for suggestions of resources to add, off-topic political discussions will be deleted.

Recommended news sites

https://www.reuters.com/ - Reuters

https://apnews.com/ - AP News

https://www.theguardian.com/uk

https://edition.cnn.com/ - CNN

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ - BBC

https://www.aljazeera.com/ - Al Jazeera

I've chosen the above as news sites as they all have no paywall or a very limited one, tend to report international news, and are focused on reporting news largely as a matter of record, and while some among them have bias, are not captured by it. Reading about a news story on these sites is likely to give you most of the relevant facts.

United Kingdom-focused

gov.uk - just in general tbh, though every British citizen should already know how good it is. Politics-related, they have a whole section below 'Services and Information' on the main page which can lead you to Department pages, policy papers, research and other useful sources to find out what the government is actually up to.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/ - National statistics collected through ONS.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ - The official home for all UK laws and their full wording.

https://www.parliament.uk/ - The site for Parliament publications, also https://hansard.parliament.uk/ which is a record of all Parliamentary debates.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/constituency-dashboard/ - Localised data for every constituency in the UK.

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/ - A record of all MP votes on various bills, as well as any other activities notable enough to record (such as public appearances). Note that many MPs will be whipped with their party on key votes, but still a useful indication of an individual MP's priorities.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html - Electoral predictions and MRP models. Tends to use uniform swing but a useful outlook at the current snapshot of polls into reality.

https://fullfact.org/ - A prominent fact-checking site.

https://yougov.co.uk/ - One of our most prominent pollsters, also a repository for one source of public opinion on politicians, but also anything else, like TV shows or football clubs.

https://wheredoesitallgo.org/ - A visualisation of current UK spending, using OBR data in a pretty pie chart. Hopefully gets maintained.

United States-focused

https://www.congress.gov/ - A library of US federal laws.

https://www.politico.com/ - Analysis and news on day-to-day political stores in the US.

https://www.270towin.com/ - An site on simulating upcoming elections in the US.

ROTW

https://338canada.com - Canadian election visualizer

Canadian, Australian, French, German, anywhere else: sites to go here.

Got this idea after seeing wheredoesitallgo on r/ukpolitics and wanting somewhere to store links to things like this (and hopefully use it more in debates without trawling around on centralised search engines for ages). Any suggestions for things I've missed, very welcome.