I've also lived in two countries with ID cards (Switzerland and Denmark) and they are AFAIK entirely uncontroversial there. The British system of producing bank statements and utility bills is j… (View Post)

Sober discussion of events plus humour and gentle teasing are all parts of PB that we should value. Where it becomes tiresome is when posters start to stick labels on each other - X is a Putinist, Y … (View Post)

The trouble is that this stuff gradually ages. "Are you still going on about that, why don't you suggest policies to help ordinary Americans?" will be quite an effective counter in 202… (View Post)

I don't remember the policy, but how did it cope with the fact that areas that need public spending most (i.e. poorer ones) have by definition the lowest levels of income, so local income tax wi… (View Post)

Which is easy to say from a comfortable warm middle-class house, but less so when choosing between heating and eating after a shitty 12 hour shift as an under paid nurse. Yes, quite (though as you�… (View Post)