I agree. Conversely, while I always defend Gordon Brown on his handling of the economic crisis, I think he was bonkers to cut the rate of income tax. He thought it'd be popular - in reality, peo… (View Post)

Sure! Other things being equal, with general prosperity on all sides, why not pay it off and have more to spend on public services or simply as a protection against global hard times in the future? T… (View Post)

For those who aren't all Abba'd out, and the PBer who I was debating Sweden's low-key style with the other day, this is an interesting subtitled interview with Agnetha from a few years… (View Post)

Slightly more recent (30/8-2/9) Forschungsgruppe Wahlen: 25/22/17/11/11/7 - the interesting thing about which is that's almost entirely a 3-point shift from Green to SPD, with CFU unchanged (and… (View Post)

It's pointless arguing about personal taste, really. FWIW I'm a diehard ABBA fan, partly because I followed them all as individual singers before they joined up - they were all successful o… (View Post)