Stuartinromford

Unfortunately, @rcs1000 is right; the cost to any Republicans who do that will likely be huge. It's perfectly rational for them to look round nervously and hope that someone else does the necessary. … (View Post)

About $2 billion, according to the Beeb; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz01y9gkdm3o Whether that's per year, or in total, doesn't seem clear from the reporting. Seriously difficult to manage, b… (View Post)

Horrible as it must be for her, and mega-awks as it must be for all around her, that trauma does show a creditable slice of self-awareness. Not much, but some. Contrast with Trump, Vance and co. What… (View Post)

In a finite world, choosing the least bad of several poor options is sometimes inevitable, without an obvious poor decision at some point in the past trapping us. It's possible that the latter half o… (View Post)

And yet, pay is increasing faster than prices and (so far) there's no sign of unemployment going up. That 0.3% is a rounding error. Overall, something must be going right. How much of the problem is … (View Post)