The fightback starts here!

This week: reasons to be cheerful about the election results, reasons to be depressed about the election results, 1,000 years of boundary changes in Europe, & how to tell your llamas from your alpaca.

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I love election nights. The suspense! The excitement! The moments where you can see people’s dreams shattered, live, on BBC One! The numbers, and the excuse to put them into spreadsheets! And last week, we didn’t even have an election night: we had an election three days, with results trickling in until Sunday. It was brilliant. I hope you all …