Often popular even after they have been tried and found to fail. The failure will be because the politicians didn't do it properly. (View Post)

Another related question. That this terrible idea is so popular (majority support even from Conservative voters) is pointing to something being perceived as wrong with the current economic order. So … (View Post)

Partly, it's that libertarian right claim that, if you rip everything up now, a better solution will spontaneously come evolve, thanks to natural selection. We'll leave aside the details th… (View Post)

Who cares about the fans? It's about creating more transitions to fill with ads on the tellybox. (View Post)

Worse than that, outsourced ruthless awfulness is the way to win big. Consider our three biggest election winners this century- Blair had Mandelson, Johnson had Cummings, Starmer had McSweeney. In ea… (View Post)