Why don't other large parties try compete for SNP voters, then? In a democracy, it seems fair enough that parties should move toward the voters. But perhaps the problem is that they are hideboun… (View Post)

Arguably the Eastern European countries are motivated by strategic expectations rather than just historical experience. This would go some way to explain East Germany: Whatever about parts of Poland … (View Post)

It was also the view of almost every Western politician back in... January. (View Post)

It is just about screaming the sneering supremacy of the old over the young, backed by the rage against mortality of the biggest age cohort ever. (View Post)

"Class" in the alphabet soup sense (C2DE etc) is a red herring in the 21st century. The professions with medium-term growth are nursing and teaching and social care, not so much architectur… (View Post)