While it is fun watching commentators trying to take away Liz Trusses bed curtains, "rings and all", and clearly the Conservatives are flirting with an extinction level event, things in the… (View Post)

Old Aberdeen and the Brig o´Balgownie is pretty on the other hand. (View Post)

Just a few funny straws in the wind. A friend has just returned from Spain. He says that tens of thousands of Russian young men have turned up. Meanwhile on this morning´s ferries to Helsinki a huge … (View Post)

Yes, and for different fractions of the same party to test their strengths. STV is a pretty good system and fits with the Westminster tradition pretty well. (View Post)

Except the 1) 1990 level was Soviet statistics and not accurate 2) in 1990 you could not buy very much anyway, because the choice of goods was minimal. Communism rationed goods by availability, not b… (View Post)