We've gone through different phases. At first, there was a sort of Dunkirk spirit - "we must all do what it takes, wfh no problem". Then came general lockdown so people couldn't s… (View Post)

Yes, I think so. I remember the Berufsverbot era when leftist people like me were banned from all kinds of non-political professions in Germany, and it seemed to me fundamentally unfair - why shouldn… (View Post)

I have a right-wing Tory friend who says cheerfully that if he'd been a Tube driver he's have voted for Bob Crow - "He understands how the free market works - not his job to be popular… (View Post)

I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?" (View Post)

The only recent example of acceptance of large-scale migration was Merkel's decision on the Syrian migrants. Thst did cause considerable controversy for a while, and various people here predicte… (View Post)