I wouldn't call it a "landslide". The final share of the vote might be 51:48. It was fairly efficiently distributed in a 50:50 country, but even Kamala, a dire token candidate anointed by t… (View Post)

We can cut our absurdly bloated and pampered public sector in other ways. You know, the one that just committed £11 billion more in "climate aid", whatever that is, or £22 billion in pay in… (View Post)

I don't think that's true. Socialism never really took root in the US because the virus of class-based politics never spread, and that was for a number of reasons. Firstly, politics was much more rac… (View Post)

Wow. For the first time I agree with Paul Mason. The debt brake is insanity. Regierender Wahnsinn. Germany's population is ageing rapidly, and has low home ownership. That means it has a very high pr… (View Post)

Here that result would take you to a hung Parliament and a week or two of negotiations leading to a weak coalition. That's yet another problem with the Presidential system - it's winner take all, whe… (View Post)