Did Starmer get much credit from his base for VAT on private school fees? To what extent do these sort of base-pleasing politicies work (in terms of pleasing the base)? Or is there main benefit in pr… (View Post)

That's absurd. There surely has to be more to that story. Why would the courts want to provide legal protection for dishonesty? They're normally quite hard on that sort of thing. (View Post)

Point being that they do work, as long as you understand they are principally shifting heat in time (when the freezer cooled the packs), rather than in space (out of the house as with a refrigerating… (View Post)

But, on the fundamentals (see, for example, house-building) Starmer was a huge failure. Better communication can only help Britain break out of its current morass if it's used in service of bold… (View Post)

It's definitely part of the general desire for change, yes. Given the fiscal constraints, unless the leader who implements real change is very persuasive, the likely response to that change is m… (View Post)