Political suicide is preferable to national suicide. The triple lock is a waste of money, which transfers money from poorer people to richer people. If we wish to avoid a government bent on revenge s… (View Post)

People want lots of things that are unwise, unaffordable, or unattainable. Sometimes, leadership means saying “I want, doesn’t get.” (View Post)

There’s no point being in government, if you can’t take a decision some people will not like. The triple lock has to go. (View Post)

I don’t doubt there is a fair-sized minority of people who would eagerly ban the public profession of Christianity, so Christians should be opposed to supporting a ban on Muslim prayer. (View Post)

Counter-factuals are always speculative, but I wonder how things would have turned out, had the rebels lost. Would slavery have ended sooner, or would the US civil war have been fought across the who… (View Post)