The corollary of "I'm paid a shedload of money because I'm worth it" is "They're paid a pittance because they are lazy and feckless." We are in one of those bits of… (View Post)

It's the tiresome thing that teenagers do when caught doing something they shouldn't. BUT LOOK AT THEM, HOW DARE YOU CRITICISE ME WHEN YOU ARE NOT TELLING THEM OFF. In the real world, none … (View Post)

You may well be right. However. Just because a view is widely-held doesn't make it true. In this case, the boffins who have looked at this have said that, if you do blanket testing, the harm fro… (View Post)

The question the OBR are asked is "will this plan have a decent chance of meeting the fiscal rule?" That most of the time they are asked to mark the answer to a silly question is the fault … (View Post)

How many different parties will lead / be above X percent in a BPC poll? Not sure where to put X for maximum entertainment. Fifteen and twenty-five would be rather different questions. (View Post)