I think there's some confusion between whether BJP alone will win a majority (it probably won't) or whether the electoral coalition it is part of will do so (looks like they will). There ar… (View Post)

Lots of good ideas there. I found this chart very interesting. The rate of private housebuilding isn't low by historical standards. But the state stopped building houses. Add 150,000 houses a ye… (View Post)

My immediate thought is that this is a Josef Fritzl situation. (View Post)

Narrator: In 45 years, since 1979, the Tories have been in government for 32 years. Britain today is a country made by right-wing politics. It's your failure. Own it. Have a think about where yo… (View Post)

People don't vote in that simplistic way. The parties in Ireland definitely do make those sorts of tradeoffs, and so the voters often don't have the choice of candidate and party that shoul… (View Post)