Statistically leader ratings are a worse guide to the result of the next general election than voting intention, though neither is much use till 3-6 months before the poll. I set this out in a thread… (View Post)

The thing missing with Sunak is the Vision thing. He has yet to present a clear vision of where he wants to take the country, and to convince enough people that tomorrow will be better than today. It… (View Post)

But I thought Brexit doomed the Union? Or was this just yet another Remainer mistake/lie, along with the 5 million unemployed and international irrelevance that we're still waiting for? (View Post)

If we had boiling heat in this country for more than a few days a year I might agree with you. But I've lived in the southern US, and that taught me to appreciate our own fairly mild, pleasant s… (View Post)

It's a much stranger system than many realise, and not really a manifestation of democracy. Time zones are actually federally regulated, by the US Department of Transportation. That's a han… (View Post)