Cash as a physical object is a lot easier to understand than waving a card about, particularly in terms of it being a finite resource. The abstract nature of paying by card would be parsed as equival… (View Post)

I don't think Vance is going to be replaced, but Trump could brazen it out if he did it. Everything is always someone else's fault, a big conspiracy against him, this would be no different.… (View Post)

It's an important principle of democratic politics that both sides respect the process and accept the result. Things start to break down in various ways when that stops happening. Even if it doe… (View Post)

Yes, but I believe with two caveats. Firstly, the politicians have meddled with this, and overridden the system, with regard to certain cancer drugs in particular, as it happens. Often in response to… (View Post)

I don't buy the argument that Starmer is a master electoral strategist, marshalling voters only where he needed them, to win a huge majority with an economy of effort. He won a landslide majorit… (View Post)