A North Korean style vote share for Farage, but on a record low turnout, would be pretty funny. The largest share of the vote in a peacetime by-election since 1918 is 97.4% (Ian Paisley, North Antrim… (View Post)

Yes. In Davis' 2008 by-election he received ~70% of the vote, the Greens and the English Democrats took another ~15%, and all three other candidates shared the final ~15%. I'd expect someth… (View Post)

The USSR survived several changes of leader, because it had an institutional structure for doing so. As far as I can tell Putin has created a form of governance that revolves around him personally to… (View Post)

But in this case it's a matter of the man being on bail after conviction. He was eventually given a sentence of 24 years, so it would have been obvious he was facing a very long sentence. Even i… (View Post)

It potentially only needs a couple of people to egg him on in some obscure corner of the internet, similar to the way in which some people have been encouraged to commit suicide. (View Post)