Fishing

"What a time to be alive with a POTUS dropping the F bomb so publicly." I don't think sexual swearwords are the taboos they used to be. Taboos have changed. In the Middle Ages, the worst cu… (View Post)

"The only saving grace I can see for Starmer is that the Labour Party aren’t as pro-regicide as the Tories which gives him over four years to turn things around." Far more importantly, the … (View Post)

The economics of Cameron's austerity was heavily flawed, in two ways. It was based on the assumption of multiplier effects of 0.5-0.9, when the evidence was and is that they are more like 1.5-2.0. Al… (View Post)

More to the point, Iran would have been nowhere near nukes if Trump, at Netamyahu's urging, hadn't ripped up Obama's deal for no discernible reason. I'm no fan of Obama, but he did agree a reasonable… (View Post)

The point isn't that we're screwed in the short to medium term at least, it's that we should be doing so much better. And we could be, if we had a government prepared to have the courage to think mor… (View Post)