Not obviously the case. For us to know that this is good policy making we would need to know both costs and benefits. All we have here is benefits. (View Post)

"Not something I am backing or tipping" or "something I am neither backing nor tipping". (View Post)

Your interpretation is heartening. We'll see. I'm not saying 'worse than the Tories on infrastructure' on the basis of a bit of vague rune-reading. They've got a lot further … (View Post)

https://electionmaps.uk/council-by-elections/24-29 (View Post)

Hm, perhaps you're right. The way I see it, Israel is a democracy and is sort-of-western. Its neighbours - Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi, Egypt (to some extent) - are not. They are ru… (View Post)