Thing is, Sunak had the opportunity to be the one to break the logjam. Deep down, we all know that there's a mismatch between the things we want the state to provide and the amount we are happy … (View Post)

As I was saying- emote and then scramble round for evidence to fit. Look, we all do it, me included. It's part of the human condition. It's just that civilization and progress depend on not… (View Post)

Sadly not. There are plenty of cognitive studies on this. Left to our own devices, we don't think then conclude based on the evidence. We emote and then choose the evidence to fit. Hence the sud… (View Post)

But to an extent, that's a circular argument. America is a massive cultural influence on us because we watch it so closely. The downside is that many aspects of the British Question can't b… (View Post)

I'm not sure it does, though. In the MP nominations, the cabinet candidate got a pretty hefty lead. Powell, for all the gushing that she's Andy Manc's candidate, is hardly rebellious, … (View Post)