Yes. The planning reforms are totally inadequate, and housebuilding has actually fallen not risen, especially in London where houses are actually needed, the energy reforms will increase, rather than… (View Post)

Yes, of course, but it doesn't even have to be a government of bad guys. The modern state is so powerful and omnipresent that, if given unnecessary or excessive power and unwatched, governments … (View Post)

Completely the wrong metric of success. The question is surely how many posts, articles and podcasts that would have been about Epstein and Trump are now about Nigeria instead. (View Post)

Wrong and offensive is pretty much everything DA writes about Ukraine. Still, in the spirit of Christmas, this site would be very boring if there weren't the odd weirdo, and I'm sure we all… (View Post)

I'm sure no-one on this site would ever be pedantic on these matters, but one can also say that the Soviet Union's week-long rout of the Japanese in Manchuria should also be included, leadi… (View Post)