United Kingdom · Prototype · Illustrative data (not a live dataset)
You are the center of your universe
No left-right axis: each star's distance from you — and from the other stars — comes from the full vector of positioning across seven themes, not a single projection. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom. Adjust the weights and watch the universe reconfigure.
Prototype with illustrative data — not a live dataset. Party universe and legislative weight: the Electoral Commission and the current composition of the House of Commons. Ideological positioning: Chapel Hill Expert Survey 2024 (which covers the UK) and Global Party Survey 2019, mapped by the author onto the 7-theme scale. Conceptual example, not a live dataset.
The model
No left-right axis: each star's distance from you — and from the other stars — comes from the full vector of positioning across seven themes, not a single projection. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom. Adjust the weights and watch the universe reconfigure.
Prototype with illustrative data — theme scores are an author calibration from the sources named above, not a live collection with a coordinated date. No result of the experiment should be cited as an empirical finding.
Technical sheet for this snapshot: Party universe and legislative weight: the Electoral Commission and the current composition of the House of Commons. Ideological positioning: Chapel Hill Expert Survey 2024 (which covers the UK) and Global Party Survey 2019, mapped by the author onto the 7-theme scale. Conceptual example, not a live dataset.
What this model does not claim. Relational geometry is not this project’s invention: it comes from a lineage beginning in 1952 and consolidated in 1970. Handing citizens the calculation of their proximity to parties had also been done for decades, by instruments used by tens of millions of people. What remains its own is narrow and verifiable: showing the field as a configuration seen from the observer’s position — including how the parties rearrange among themselves. The lineage is credited in the essay, and what remains unsolved is gathered in the self-criticism.