I'm unenthusiastic about subsidising domestic agriculture too, but climate change predictions and the possibility of global transport disruption give me pause about moving towards total dependen… (View Post)

I'm not sure that broad terms like "left" and "right" help much when we're willing to talk in detail as we are here. I'd like to see more progressive taxation (incl… (View Post)

Scandinavia basically offers the model of social democracy in public spending balanced by private ownership of most utilities and high taxation. It works pretty well, with little demand either for st… (View Post)

Interesting piece by RP, and of course the same applies to voting, which is a small amount of hassle and probably has no effect at all. But if we're interested, why not? What wlould we be doing … (View Post)

Attacking other posters weakens debate on PB. I'm not a fan of Williamglenn, but he's entitled to give his views without being compared with a traitor. The effect is to make open debate les… (View Post)