On the other hand, if it deters politicians from ordering damaging and counter-productive future lockdowns for fear of being shown up as hypocrites, it will have been worth every penny (View Post)

Is there any virtue-signalling, idiotic waste of other people's money that Labour's activists and younger MP candidates WOULDN'T support? (View Post)

As it's an open thread, here are some observations that some may find interesting. Obviously they're personal and doubtless not at all representative. I have just spent a pleasant couple of… (View Post)

"Lockdown benefits ‘a drop in the bucket compared to the costs’, landmark study [from Johns Hopkins University] finds Researchers say draconian measures taken in spring 2020 had 'negligible… (View Post)

Yes, that's the long term reason I think Starmer's plans to build more houses will go the same way as Johnson's. The medium term reason is the power of the oligopoly of housebuilders, … (View Post)