This is the key of nuclear diplomacy. You have to try to convince the civilians on the other side that nukes are imminent (to get them to pressure their governments in fear, and for the governments t… (View Post)

Saw the perennial lab-leak vs zoonosis discussion on the previous thread. For me, I was loosely in the "accidental lab leak" as being at least as plausible as zoonosis camp. Yes, all the mi… (View Post)

The irony in that view is that when it was debated in 1917, those opposed to STV had as a key argument that it strengthened the constituency link (by providing a choice within the party for the elect… (View Post)

I also found it an ironic view. I’d been reading through the debates when PR got passed by Parliament in 1917 (but died in inter-House ping-pong): MPs opposed to STV frequently decried it for strengt… (View Post)

Yes, he did. But he did it by lifting the entire line upwards. Not by altering the steepness of the slope. Every election up until the last three had a similar such pattern. Sometimes a little steepe… (View Post)