Note the "proven". The other explanation is that the lack of ID requirements means it's so piss easy to get away with and such a low priority for the police that nobody is ever caught,… (View Post)

Because, like the NYT, they equate it - wrongly in my view - with Trump, and think that to discredit one is to hurt the other by implication. In my experience, Americans usually comment on foreign af… (View Post)

Decrminalisation is a fudge with the problems of both criminalising and legisalising, and the benefits of neither. You still hand the trade to gangs and increase use, but you can't get the tax r… (View Post)

Re the Curtice article: I am more and more convinced that Labour is suffering from the same identity crisis that has hit centre-left parties all over the democratic world since the deindustrialisatio… (View Post)

Starmer is taking full responsibility - by sacking everyone else. (View Post)