Some might argue it goes back further. The Three Day week damaged the Tories until the Winter of Discontent. Devaluation/ “the pound in your pocket” hurt Labour until the Three Day week. Etc. Once yo… (View Post)

It’s probably highly over-simplistic, but my perception in my lifetime has been that economic crises happening under given Governments tend to stick to the Party that was in Government until yanked a… (View Post)

Catching up on yesterday's lab leak stuff - can anyone link to an original source? Other than "Public and Racket," which I did find and rather regretted. Unless I wanted to learn more about… (View Post)

In addition, it's not as if they leapt from zero to full lockdown every time. Each time, they tried to do things a bit Sweden-y. Prior to the first lockdown, it was explicitly said that we and Sweden… (View Post)

Exactly. Almost all the restrictions imposed were "Tragedy of the Commons"-style. The sort where as long as everyone else complied, any particular individual (or small group of individuals)… (View Post)