Also worth noting that the EU is famously not a big fan of Ireland's success at "luring" lots of big multinational companies into relocating there - albeit not so much for the results, as f… (View Post)

That's one big (albeit still pint-sized?) mask. (View Post)

Indeed you can't, but you could stop pretending that our long-established party-based system doesn't exist, just because it isn't in our unwritten Constitution. (View Post)

And as you know equally well, the thing that matters to most people when voting is who is going to form the government in the immediate aftermath of the election. The exact identity of their local MP… (View Post)

I think they're just unused to having to make real-world decisions that actually matter. Personally I'm very relieved that the advice I give as a result of the hugely complex models I don't fully und… (View Post)