Nate Silver's adjustment for a post-convention bounce puts the result on a knife-edge. That seems very plausible to me. The state polling also looks a lot tighter than the national polling, and … (View Post)

I used to deride Sunak as a paint-by-numbers Chancellor, and I think you could apply the same sort of criticism to Starmer as PM. It's like he's working from the equivalent of a foreign lan… (View Post)

What would you do if the pub only accepted cash? (View Post)

I worked for a while at a school for kids with moderate emotional and behavioural difficulties. I spent a lot of time with a class of 14 and 15 year olds, not too far away from the end of their time … (View Post)

The problem is that paying with contactless is *too* easy. Until it stops working because you have no money left. (View Post)