Conservative budgets bribe voters with their own money. Labour budgets bribe peope with other people's money. (View Post)

I'm not denying that Boris isn't exactly God's gift to hard science, but the testimony of Patrick Vallance - who hardly covered himself in glory in the pandemic with his grasp of the m… (View Post)

"We" are continuing to develop it because "we" aren't one entity who thinks of our collective good but 8 billion individuals, some of whom deem their upside of a medium to hi… (View Post)

I see. [Minor barb, because I can't resist: this is one of the few arguments I've heard for paying footballers more. Though of course I agree footballers are wildly atypical of people who s… (View Post)

To be honest, I thought when I was writing it that this was probably a description of how things are perceived rather than how things are. Please treat the Sweden/USA bit as a rhetorical device! Corr… (View Post)