As well as the lack of redundancy (so errors can be catastrophic) you also have the lack of continuity in that it is not obvious whether two locations are adjacent or widely separated (unlike latitud… (View Post)

It depends if you live in a target or marginal ward. We (LDs) are currently bombarding a subset of Birmingham wards with leaflets, and my own ward is being deluged by the Greens. Reform and the Torie… (View Post)

Also, it's not even that. Supermarkets depend on people buying stuff at a roughly constant rate, when averaged out among many shoppers. All it needs is a bit of coordination, such as lots of peo… (View Post)

I think it's partly because literally nobody is defending China's treatment of the Uyghurs, so there's no-one to argue against. We are broadly in agreement that the Chinese regime is e… (View Post)

I wonder what exactly vetting involves? Surely political parties, especially the small ones, don't have the ability or authorisation to do much more than ask the candidate if they have any skele… (View Post)