Sounds fine as a theory. Fails validation when confronted with real-world evidence given the manifest failings of Westminster and the better performance of other countries with decades of coalition g… (View Post)

What you describe in the first of these paragraphs is a feature of STV, not a bug. The voters control whether their vote transfers between candidates for the same party. This is better than closed-li… (View Post)

One reason why exclusion diets like Bart's carnivore diet can work is that by heavily restricting the choice of food available you make food less interesting and it becomes harder to eat too man… (View Post)

That's easy to say, but not as easy to do. We've rapidly moved from a state that existed for hundreds of thousands of years - relatively, or very, scarce food and intense physical activity … (View Post)

One thing to beat in mind with this statistics is that, if you divided Glasgow into a number of district's, each with the same population size as Blackpool, I'd expect at least one of those… (View Post)