Incidentally, while I'm agnostic on drug liberalisation, strip-searching a child for suspicion of carrying drugs seems to me wildly disproportionate, EVEN IF THEY ARE. A lot of people would find… (View Post)

Totally agree. It can sometimes be a deliberate tactic by opponents to try to put different groups against each other so as to obscure their common interest, but people do it even when not manipulate… (View Post)

Don't think so? POUM were the Trotskyists, persecuted by the Stalinists, no? My understanding was that Orwell positively liked the POUM, therefore disliked the Stalinists. A lesson from all that… (View Post)

Detailed tables from Ashcroft for the Russia poll (despite reservations about respondent willingness to be frank) https://lordashcroftpolls.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Russia-Tables-180322.pdf Apo… (View Post)

There's an interesting poll on one such examplary policy, though the subsample %s are odd (all larger than the overall figure) https://labourlist.org/2022/03/exclusive-uk-voters-support-windfall… (View Post)