Let's see who he makes Chancellor. That will tell us quite a lot. But otherwise the aspirations - and they are no more than that for now - at least take aim in the right direction. The emphasis … (View Post)

In the fevered imagination of MAGA, any member of Congress who exercises independent judgment in any matter at all is a RINO. (View Post)

That’s an awful lot of disenfranchisement to solve a problem that does not appear to exist. That's nonsense, I'm afraid. Of course a problem exists. And this solution is designed to address… (View Post)

Public spending in the regions, though, is highly devolved in Japan; it is more centralised in the UK than in just about any other developed western economy. (View Post)

It's nothing to do with judges' competence; it's intended to deal with clearing the large appeals backlog. How practical it might be is a good question. (View Post)