These days, in the UK anyway, he would probably get weeks of deradicalisation brainwashing, his family's browsing history would be pored over, and then he and his parents would get months of hea… (View Post)

It won't be proper growth at all - it will either reward investment decisions that would have been taken anyway (most of it) or it will incentivise (a few) decisions that would make no sense but… (View Post)

Sounds like a classic European ever-revolving, never-evolving coalition PR system, with bargaining between politicians after the election rather than between the politicians and the electorate before… (View Post)

But Blair was a once in a century political genius in the right place at the right time, while Starmer is an overpromoted medocrity in the right place at the right time (so far). (View Post)

Everybody who had a chimney swept or used coal in the 19th century benefited from unfree labourers. If you read about the conditions faced by child chimney sweepers or coal miners in that era they ar… (View Post)