That's a smart idea, it would still allow the benefits to be universally applied (which makes them cheaper to administer and gets round the problem that many very poor pensioners wouldn't claim them … (View Post)

As Gavin Barwell has tweeted, the Georgia run-off does matter, rather a lot. 1. If the Dems win they will have a majority on Senate committees, speeding up business. 2. They will be able to lose a se… (View Post)

Has @Leon seen this? https://twitter.com/MatthewPope/status/1598571845049061376 (View Post)

As in all elites. (View Post)

Rap reached its peak in a little-known post-modernist performance in 2016. Those who were there were there, everyone else will just have to try to imagine it from this briefest of clips (at 1'33"… (View Post)