Speed and certainty are way more significant than serverity of punishment. Making really nasty threats is what you do when you can't or won't have a system to deliver speed or certainty. It… (View Post)

Apparently the plan is to put the necessary cables in the Wash; https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/huge-blow-to-ed-miliband-as-reform-councillors-declare-war-on-net-zero-plans/ They could act as t… (View Post)

Though it's an odd sort of business where he can't be contacted at all. And the Island is the sort of place where everyone knows everyone. Curious. (View Post)

Partly that, but it also flags the tension that hasn't been resolved since 2016. In that campaign, there were two post-Brexit visions, partly manifest in the split between Vote Leave and Leave.e… (View Post)

And that's not a new problem, and it's not unique to the right. (As I've mentioned before, my formative practical politics was against a Liberal councillor in south Hampshire who pulle… (View Post)