Citation needed for a lot of the above. Parties and party activists say all sorts of things, but I’m taking actual policy as written in election manifestos and government bills. The 3 traditional par… (View Post)

But to what? Reform policies are cakeism. There’s not a meaningful policy platform for the other parties to adopt. The reason to vote Reform is not policy, it’s identity. Same as voting for Gaza inde… (View Post)

We shouldn’t have to choose which offensive to condemn. Too many here and elsewhere, particularly the edgelords of the left and right, seem to think that condemning one criminal enterprise requires o… (View Post)

Number 2 is true, yet totally out of the control of this government. The other thing that’s inevitable is that there will be another unexpected global or UK crisis between now and the election: a fin… (View Post)

The bond markets are concerned with both credit risk and inflation (and base rate) expectations. I think a lot of commentators focus entirely on the former and forget the latter. Case in point, yeste… (View Post)