On one hand, 45% of the electorate will back Trump no matter what. On the other, 55-45 is a landslide in a two horse race. The reality of FPTP is that loyalist voters don't matter, which is why parti… (View Post)
Or to half-remember a PJ O'Rourke line, it was like robbing a bank, stealing all the little pens and nothing else. All the interesting new things there, and they took the uninteresting thing they und… (View Post)
Anyone remember when they started moaning in '97? (Ian Hislop was good on this in a recent Private Eye podcast. We think of Blair having a long honeymoon, but the Ecclestone scandal was pretty early … (View Post)
No, this is a Nazi duck; (Though if the game is Disney characters who would have gone fash given the chance, Scrooge McDuck must be higher on the list.) (View Post)
There's a reasonably legit case for highish universal benefits, as long as they are coupled with highish and fairly progressive taxes to fund them. Lots of something for something. The catch is that … (View Post)