I think that the ordinary people who have participated in citizens assemblies have shown a surprising willingness to compromise and deal with awkward tradeoffs, that they would be a useful addition. … (View Post)

The government had previously talked about gradually increasing defence spending to 2.5%, but in the budget they added a caveat which I think was new. They would aim to increase defence spending to 2… (View Post)

The thing that confuses me about these is that a lot of bad debt seems to be created. The model seems to be to walk away from massive amounts of debt when the business goes bankrupt. So you would thi… (View Post)

I think the gang leaders were mostly opposed to the status quo - they didn't like the idea of the state putting some of their members in prison, for example - and so they have overthrown the sta… (View Post)

And remember that Biden is a proud great-x-grandson of England. (View Post)