The thing I can't get my head around with the BBC's refusal to use the word terrorist is the gay abandon with which they deploy the heavily loaded term far right, often justifiably to be fa… (View Post)

You do tend to have some insight into the amoral pursuit and exercise of power by those who have made it, more able to strip out extraneous moral concerns than many B of us, so I set some weight by t… (View Post)

Between his mellifluous voice and his vocabulary, he has a future narrating nature documentaries on the giant guano caves of Indonesia. (View Post)

On topic, the last time the Conservative rolling average vote share was above 30% was before the Truss budget. Latest all pollster average (last poll of the 12 who have polling in the last month) is … (View Post)

Where do people think the 95% confidence range is for the next election by the way? For me it is around a 7-21% Labour win, and for me the outlier events beyond this range at both extremes involve le… (View Post)