On topic, interesting header, and I respect Casino's effort to be objective. In the opposite way, I hope the Republicans sort themselves out as permanent Democrat rule probably wouldn't be … (View Post)

On a slightly different angle, it's unfortunate though natural that we've had a spout of vaccine nationalism, because as you say it's going to be important that the whole world gets va… (View Post)

Incidentally, I've been doing some phone polling. Quite a lot of perople have views that you don't often see here - they think the Government is doing a pretty good job on the pandemic AND … (View Post)

I suppose I'm seeing it as a (semi-former) professional politician - again and again I found them factually misleading with obvious selection of data to suit whatever line they were pushing. Com… (View Post)

My favourite example of direct democracy was one I've told here before. An elderly colleague at work would struggle up the stairs to his office every day. I asked him why he didn't take the… (View Post)