Social media has generated an immaturity, so that some people can't distinguish between criticising what they have written and expressed, and criticising them personally. (View Post)

Overall, it looks like the centre right/right have 97 seats out of 150, with six more going to Christian fundamentalists. That’s a gigantic defeat for the left. (View Post)

The NI cut is much bigger than a 5% increase in energy prices. (View Post)

People who are used to rapid growth factor in an assumption that the future will be much better. We’re also very far away from the reality of mass hardship that most people (apart from the wealthy) t… (View Post)

Pretty well, all Western countries have seen living standards grow (if at all), much more slowly since 2000, than was the norm, from c.1950. That results in instability. (View Post)