As PM you want it to be no election unless and until you call an election. You don't want to fall in the same trap as Gordon Brown in 2007 where he allowed election speculation but didn't c… (View Post)

I like two things about Andy Burnham. He seems a cheerful chappy, which is a nice change from the dreary Starmer and the "be nasty to everyone else" philosophy of Farage and acolytes. He ha… (View Post)

I believe the US shale oil and gas boom is quite time limited. Because the fuel is extracted under pressure you get the most production at the start and it begins to tail off immediately. After a whi… (View Post)

Which works until they get released, which will happen one day for all but a tiny part of the prison population. Keeping criminals away from the public isn't the purpose for over 99% of the pris… (View Post)

Prisons are an expensive way of making bad people worse (View Post)