Nobody else will either. Because nobody knows how to get elected promising fiscal continence or how to get re-elected after delivering it. Especially with gobby yobs on the left and right saying it c… (View Post)

Churchill: Où est la masse de manœuvre? Gamelin: Aucune. Hence a well-meaning political nonentity as PM, and chancers leading most of the opposition parties. (View Post)

To be fair, anyone trying to be British Prime Minister right now who isn't afraid of the consequences hasn't understood the situation. And in many ways, I'm fine with gradualism. The l… (View Post)

There's a bit of a difference now, thanks to social media. In the old days, the way that unacceptable behaviour was informally policed was through being shunned by your community. That worked pr… (View Post)

The thing about evolution is that it delivers improvements for the species, eventually. But the mechanism to do that is failure and death for most of the individuals. Where most actually means nearly… (View Post)