Using these figures and the results of the 2010 general election, the exercise modelled the effects of a uniform swing from the old boundaries to new.
(It may have banged another nail into the coffin of elected local authorities with its suggestion that electoral officials need closer central supervision and more uniform standards).
The uniform worn by his commanding officer, General Sir Richard Nelson "Windy" Gale, is now displayed in a museum that Prince Charles opened in 2000 and the old Pegasus Bridge, replaced by a new bridge in 1994 and left to rot in a field, has been cleaned up and preserved.
Alexander Lapko, a senior specialist at the Nato liaison office in Kiev, wrote in October in the New York Times that his family had to spend $2,400 £1,6155) on a uniform, boots, gun sight, flak jacket and helmet for his brother, who was issued only a Kalashnikov assault rifle when he joined the army last year.
By any measure, he was one of the outstanding General officers of his generation, helping our military adapt to new challenges, and leading our men and women in uniform through a remarkable period of service in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he helped our nation put those wars on a path to a responsible end.
Rooms could only be booked through the hotel, but not as part of a package, the traditional if not the uniform way of securing accommodation in Mecca.
I found the uniform he would have worn and also picked out a medal.
The trenches were littered with the detritus of war – bullet casings, scraps of uniform and empty food tins.
Despite occasionally acknowledging that some academics might be women, his comments betrayed his assumption that academics are male, for apparently their default uniform comprises trousers, a jacket, a shirt and a tie.
Visitors can try on replica uniform coats and vintage helmets, and watch movies about and veterans' videotaped accounts of D-day.
We have marked the very corporate-like environment we work in – all straight lines, uniform spaces, impenetrable concrete, unbending steel – with signs of alternative voices, thoughts-in-the-making and issues up for debate.
