Benign authoritarians are, of course, a wonderful idea. The trouble is that nobody has found a way of ensuring that they are benign, remain benign, or hand over to someone else who is benign. The ris… (View Post)
That was a lead Foot inherited from Callaghan, who took the lead within a couple of months of the 1979 election. Eyeballing the wikiworm graph, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the… (View Post)
It's the Janet Slimfast problem, as James Sean Dickson puts it. Or, more charitably, it's about time horizons. If you have many more years on this mortal coil, growth is good, it pays for nice things… (View Post)
That would be insane, wouldn't it? Partly because of his fundamental Jenrickness, but also that 75k donation from... who? ETA: most of the action on freebiegate has come from the press, not Conservat… (View Post)
Not really, though. Firstly, it's usually the economy. Apart from a pre-election boomlet, people didn't feel better off, and could see the public realm crumbling round them. Fixing those points will … (View Post)