The student loan system is a graduate tax that is structured legally as a loan for political reasons. But if it walks like a tax, talks like a tax & quacks like a tax then we should call it what … (View Post)

Starmer is a lawyer. The side he’s on right now is the side of affirming standing UK law: as currently enacted the legal reality is that trans women are women & trans men are men. (The act talks … (View Post)

There’s a particularly unusual case in a BMJ (I think) paper of a woman who, after giving birth to her third child, was discovered to have XY chromosomes. Biology can be weird. (View Post)

In what way are the Democrats “completely crazy”. None of their politics seems particularly out of line with (say) European norms. There’s only one party that’s gone completely batshit in the US &… (View Post)

I think underestimating Trump would be a mistake. I am not looking forward to the battle of the two old men at the next US presidential election. (View Post)