Should I bother to make the fire? Damn fool waste of time if the world is about to end, but it will be a chilly and damp night if the religious are wrong again. What would Pascal say? (View Post)

I think the conclusion to draw from understanding Russia's paranoid and imperialist mindset is that they're not going to stop until forced to stop. There's no compromise possible from … (View Post)

Yes. An end to stupid tactical voting arguments, and the negative campaigning of "only x can stop y", is one of the great benefits of ditching FPTP. Thirteen years since the lost AV referen… (View Post)

Okay. I should correct myself that the formulation I object to is more specifically, "only party x can stop party y". If the y is policy-based than the construction is fine, even if you mig… (View Post)

You can tell the tale of Cameron's Premiership in the three referendums - shafting the Lib Dems; a narrow escape from disaster misinterpreted as a great personal triumph; hubris cruelly exposed.… (View Post)