If Platner can be forced to pull out of the race, and the Democrats manage to pick a better candidate, then it could make a Democratic victory more likely. I don't know how likely it is that he … (View Post)

Some of the missiles may have hit more consequential targets, and while it is true that lobbing ballistic missiles at apartment blocks won't win the war for Russia, that isn't much comfort … (View Post)

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)