Interesting poll, though it's not exactly news that lots of 20-year-olds are idiots with no judgment. As, apparently, are some 70 year olds. (View Post)

I don't think Sunak is useless - he would doubtless make a competent junior minister in a technocratic portfolio. He is completely out of his depth, however, having been accidentally promoted tw… (View Post)

These "security concerns" seem to be nonsense, and the added danger from having two elections at once is probably non-existent. They remind me of the idiotic reasons used by the securocrats… (View Post)

A great deal of adult life in general, and parenting in particular, is finding a level of hypocrisy you're comfortable with. Although for some reason I've never told my kids that. (View Post)

It's too easy to be gloomy about the West - it usually rises to the challenge when it has to, and democracies discover their hidden strengths (and the weakeness of their foes) when they are in g… (View Post)