Most political quizzes use the same two axes, economic left-right and authoritarian-libertarian, and most of them are American. They cannot tell a free-market progressive from a free-market traditionalist, or a localist socialist from a globalist one, and they have nothing to say about trust in institutions, which has been the single best predictor of populist voting in recent polling.
So I built one for here. Thirty-eight questions, about eight minutes, and nine axes: economic, social, tradition, globalism, trust in institutions, free will, nature versus nurture, cultural capital (Bourdieu's taste argument), and planet. Each one cites what it draws on. The questions are scenarios rather than agree-or-disagree statements: a bypass through an ancient wood, a flight allowance, a funeral joke, and more surprising yet accurate questions.
At the end you get an archetype (fourteen of them, from the Old Socialist and the Templar to the Cosmopolitan Liberal and the Sovereignist), the thinker closest to you from a set of twenty-eight, a kindred spirit (pop culture), a short history of where your tradition comes from, and the five main parties drawn on the same nine axes so you can see which way each one points.
Things I want to hear about: whether the axes are the right nine, whether the archetype you got is fair, and where the questions lean. The methodology is public, including the weightings and the limitations I already know about.
An interesting thing to note is that I haven't mapped the political parties using just their manifesto but also the law they proposed and what they voted on. So more on their actions than their speeches.
It runs entirely in your browser. No account, no tracking, no cookies, nothing stored unless you choose to share your result.
Disclosure: It was made by Bulletin's team (BTN-media), a small UK news and media aggregator. I run that works with Impress-regulated and independent publishers. The quiz is free and does not ask you to sign up to anything to get your results. You can share your results or part of them at the end.
You are invited to check Bulletin (BTN-media), but that's as far as it goes.
Quiz: https://bulletinmedia.co/politics-quiz-uk/?src=reddit
Methodology: https://bulletinmedia.co/politics-quiz-uk/methodology.html
Which archetype did you get, and was it right?