Yup. Plan 2, as originally conceived, was pretty elegant as a least-bad way to transfer more of the costs of HE to the students. Once graduates had a vaguely premium salary, pay about ten percent of … (View Post)

Couple of things going on. One is accessibility of a campaign message by having essentially the same message in different formats and languages. As a soggy woke-lite centrist, good. One is having dif… (View Post)

And the entitled tend to have more free time to kick up a fuss, and often have sufficient connections to the great and the good to be heard making a fuss. (Which is why you get goofs like Kemi's… (View Post)

We've just got rid of McSweeney, and Cummings wasn't that long ago. Can we try not summoning anyone for a bit? (There is a genuine problem with church buildings, though not so much in remot… (View Post)

Not quite comparable, but this is from the Ipsos Veracity Index 2025, which has all sorts of data on who the British public trusts. Trust in scientists by party affiliation: Labour 93% Conservative 8… (View Post)