It's a persuasive analysis. But in addition, some people mainly care about one issue, on which Trump may be closer to their viewpoint, whether it's abortion, Ukraine, the Supreme Court, or … (View Post)

The danger of excluding the membership is that one elects a managerial fixer of limited public appeal. Perhaps we should go the other way and choose leaders through regional primaries, the only quali… (View Post)

I'm 74 and have lots of reasonably unworried, mostly leftish, pensioner friends - we were all slightly embarrassed to get the full WFA, though we did take it. There will be Labour-voting people … (View Post)

Thanks to Omnium for the welcome back, by the way - I had a stroke 3 months ago but have recovered fully except for some increased vagueness about names. (View Post)

I got my masters' equivalent in mathematics with computing from Copenhagen, which included a mandatory philosophy course. That wasn't very popular, but the essence of it has remained with m… (View Post)