Not everyone has a passport (or a driving licence), and the NI number system is a mess. If proving ID were easy for everyone, we wouldn't have needed all those kludges for Voter ID. (View Post)

Best guess is that autism is mostly genetic, and a chap's little chaps are more likely to misbehave as a chap gets older. (Translation: sperm are more likely to have mutations on them) So it's not un… (View Post)

The Occamite answer to why Shabana Mahmood is Home Secretary is that she has done a decent job at Justice of defusing the prison places fiasco bequeathed by the previous government, and so she is HMG… (View Post)

I think the answer on tax'n'spend is that many Reform voters assume that it's possible to cut undesirable government spending- whether that's on immigrants or public sector fat cats- leaving space to… (View Post)

Though a second alert in less than a minute is a rotten trick to play on us. (View Post)