Because the alternative, ultimately, is bankruptcy or massive public subsidy. (View Post)

Or they will arrive a week late rather than a day late! You're exaggerating the point for effect. But, yes, there is a trade-off between reliability and frequency. Both have costs associated wit… (View Post)

Whilst you're right that, on the eve of the election, I'd have predicted a somewhat bigger Trump win, the fact is that nothing happened last night that changes the reality that he easily ha… (View Post)

I doubt that. Brown did reasonably well in 2010 in hindsight. His serious man for serious times thing was probably Labour's best chance. David Miliband was, is, and always will be a massively ov… (View Post)

Worth recalling that, in 1997, Lib Dem vote share dropped by one percentage point on 1992, and they gained 28 seats. Indeed, they never polled well in the early New Labour period, and had polls in si… (View Post)