I wonder if it's also the triumph of the professional political class since the 1990s, who, as professional operators, are great at dominating the next news cycle, enforcing message discipline a… (View Post)

How would electoral reform change anything for the better? Far more likely it would entrench a centrist consensus where the state grows ever larger as public money is used to bribe tiny constituencie… (View Post)

Especially on a policy that obviously needs to happen in some form. And of a piece with their climbdowns on the winter fuel allowance and their abandonment of their pledge not to raise taxes. The mom… (View Post)

On topic, it's a very silly poll that asks much too much of respondents. The first question asks about the empirical effects of tax increases, without specifying which taxes will be increased, o… (View Post)

"It is clear enemies of the United Kingdom are using social media to foment division in this country." Did anyone ever doubt this? They have been doing it for a decade. The real question is… (View Post)