The betting markets are like the financial futures market - they are an great indicator of the mood of the present and a phenomenally crap guide to events in the future. (View Post)

Most of that is because of ruinously expensive housing and most of the rest is because we pretend to old people that they can live forever in comfort without working largely at public expense. (View Post)

Why is black unnecessarily capitalised throughout? Points 1 and 3 are tailor-made for fraud on an epic scale. Points 2 and 4 are overamibitous and clearly discriminatory and point 5 may well do rathe… (View Post)

On topic, it's not really true that "every state (and sometimes within states, every county) is essentially allowed to organise the federal election as it sees fit". There are several … (View Post)

True but there's a fourth point, the most important of all. Labour don't have the slightest idea how to Rebuild Britain, and indeed they scarcely pretend to, and most of the electorate outs… (View Post)