Sweden is right. Boris was right, but the assumptions were chosen to be scary, and to fit the famous curve just under the famous line. Trump may well be right - though whether the European model appl… (View Post)

You have to remember that was the age when an MP would schlep up to SW1 with his entire household upon election and stay in the vicinity of Westminster for the next 30 years, not a TV camera or a con… (View Post)

Night of the wiff-waff bats (View Post)

It is such a small indigenous economy that normal left-right politics makes little sense. You don't have a large base of domestic capital for unions and bosses to fight over. You have a bunch of… (View Post)

This argument is circular. Naturally, if you reduce the choice set for most people to two, one of the two will tend to enjoy majority support (barring the quirks than any electoral system can produce… (View Post)