The subversion of the party of Reagan by Russia has been astonishingly rapid and successful. It must go down as one of the greatest victories of a foreign intelligence service of all time. (View Post)

Conservative party poll shares from YouGov in February: 21, 22, 24, 20. You could interpret that as a gradual strengthening in Tory support and then a sudden collapse, but I think it's more like… (View Post)

It's neither here nor there whether you or I think that collective punishment is a reasonable interpretation of events - it's as clear as anything that the purpose of its inclusion in the m… (View Post)

That was a bit harsh on 538. All methods of creating a time series average will have problems with the endpoints, which is a problem for us, because it's the most recent endpoint we're inte… (View Post)

The problem for Starmer is that Labour faced a choice between two options carefully calibrated to put them in an impossible position - couldn't vote for the SNP motion because it was too critica… (View Post)