Except the Conservative manifesto in the election before austerity (2005) said Labour was "spending too much, wasting too much and taxing too much. Britain cannot continue indefinitely to spend … (View Post)

MPs are able to accuse each other of lying. They're just expected to treat it as a serious issue, and not a debating tactic. Accusations of deliberate falsehood, if seriously alleged, would be a… (View Post)

Never trust a politician. We've got to do this from a position of principle. Did we agree that we would put this decision out to the public for a vote? Yes. Did we agree that we would accept the… (View Post)

The slapdash approach may work for travel journalism: in the field I work in, we expect a little bit of thoroughness in source handling. Look, if you want to rank the opinion of an "undergraduat… (View Post)

It got an Altmetric score of 32931, and was the second-highest paper in 2020 in the medical and health sciences category (second only to "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2", which scored 36… (View Post)