The year it peaked is when reforms like the cap and "bedroom tax" etc were introduced. So perhaps that has had an impact? Or it's still getting claimed in Universal Credit but isn'… (View Post)

And yet Hitler lost and the Allies won. We could have done much, much worse. We could have lost WWII. We could have had the "unified command" of forces led by a fascist-sympathiser or a fas… (View Post)

The 25th Amendment supersedes any 1947 clarification. It is not possible for Congress to do anything with both the Presidency and Vice Presidency vacant at once, as the 25th ensures the Presidency is… (View Post)

Not at all for the first time. Its horseshoe theory again. (View Post)

Yes, as allies, working together - not under a constitutional unification. Ad hoc unification is much more dynamically better than institutionalised. (View Post)