Alternatively, why bother? It's the mirror image of the problem the Conservatives still haven't really answered after twenty years of Faragism. How should a party of government deal with a … (View Post)

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherl… (View Post)

Probably the truthful thing to say- the range of scores that allows the third(?)/fourth(?)/fifth(?) party to be actual Kingmakers, as opposed to reluctantly having to push someone you aren't tha… (View Post)

Sometimes, acting twattishly is extremely rational behaviour. (Whilst planning laws don't help, and the new ones should be an improvement, the other issue is the asymmetry of the fight. Objector… (View Post)

In some areas, that's easy. Nats in Scotland and Wales. Lib Dems in the Waitrose belt. Greens in the nosering belt. But that leaves an insanely large fraction of the country where there isn'… (View Post)