In 2017 there was a law that required Parliament to show its strong support for an election in advance. Not now. (View Post)

Callaghan and May both tried to solve problems with potentially effective solutions but got screwed by legacy parliamentary parties. I'd push all them higher than consensus. More un-PC: Brown-Da… (View Post)

Most poems aren't good, just as most films and paintings and statues aren't good. To think otherwise betrays an epicurean's lack of critical judgement. Albeit, for me, the most is larg… (View Post)

I don't have a Twitter and I find these posts to be a good service. They don't dominate the discourse, and they're not huge in size, so if I don't like reading them, I can always … (View Post)

Of course the LDP is conservative, albeit inclusive of enough clientelist local machines to let them govern Japan for all but four of the last 65 years. (View Post)