Telling the BBC they can do one looks good to many Tory members, who will see it not as cowardice but as "standing up" to a leftwing institution. All she needs to do now is stick two finger… (View Post)

A concrete fact: the 2019 Labour manifesto promised to create 1 million climate emergency jobs. That would mean • an average of 1600 climate emergency workers in each parliamentary constituency; • 7 … (View Post)

A reduction of 5% from 20% would take it to 19%. Perhaps they mean a reduction of 5 percentage points (pp)? (View Post)

So strategic nuclear weapons are useless. Who'd have guessed it? Upper Volta with nukes was the same as Upper Volta without nukes all along. A historian at St Andrews explains the position. Will all … (View Post)

Did someone post something interesting here that got whooshed by a tsunami of biblically-themed willy waving? (View Post)