Depending on what happens between now and 2028, a nice mayor from a small town might be just what America needs. Maybe even wants. (View Post)

Unfortunately, humans like exciting stories with goodies and baddies, and "system fails because they all occasionally fail, roughly in proportion to our collective cheapness" isn't an excit… (View Post)

As in "which British Prime Minister was most f@#*ing stupid?" (All PMs are brought down by their inadequacies. What made Boris's collapse special was how dismal his fatal lies ended up bein… (View Post)

That's a bigger thing than political parties though. In pretty much every field of our lives, we are given more choice than in the 1980s, and expect things to fit us much better than used to be possi… (View Post)

DOGE was also people cutting spending lines that they didn't like the titles of, without going through the faff of finding out what they actually did. My first thought on hearing the title 'councillo… (View Post)