I'm tempted by the 16/1 on 0 by-elections this year partly as a proxy hedge (if there is a by-election, then chances are that I can make money on it - if there are none, then the opportunity is … (View Post)

It seems to me that part of the issue is that we've had complicators rather than simplifiers for the best part of the last 30 years. Both Brown and Osborne were complicators - always fiddling wi… (View Post)

BIB - Maybe I'm wrong but I didn't think that it was Schumer who folded - but 8 random Dems who stopped following Schumer's line? (Now there's a separate point about should he hav… (View Post)

I have absolutely no confidence at all that the police would use a binary search. It's obvious to us (with compsci / maths / data engineering type backgrounds where a binary search is a staple o… (View Post)

The question I have is *why* are the police reluctant / refusing to act in cases such as this. You'd have thought that it would be a reasonably straightforward case and so would be positive on t… (View Post)