The reason this sort of scheme shouldn't be touched with a bargepole is that the PM is essentially soliciting gifts that, to a large extent, benefit him and his family personally. You'd hav… (View Post)

Is it what they voted for? On just the constituency seats in 2016, the SNP got 80% of the seats on 46% of the vote. I don't think people really did vote for that level of dominance, although cle… (View Post)

There's an interesting philosophical question about how different life would be absent the terror of death and all that comes around it - if we all knew that death, when it comes, will take us p… (View Post)

There is quite a lot that doesn't say. In particular, it doesn't say "improving". (View Post)

I think you've misunderstood what smoothing is, Matt. There was a big Xmas spike in the UK compared with other European countries, either taken collectively or individually. That was predictable… (View Post)