Same reason that losing gamblers don't stop until they have lost their clothes and have to walk out wearing a wooden barrel to cover their modesty. They hope that their losses are bad luck, not bad j… (View Post)
Erm... About that... The one (1) person the government paid to voluntarily go to Rwanda seems to have been lost. This bodes well. (Via LouCalvey). https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1787427700203716891… (View Post)
I've mentioned this line from CS Lewis before: The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour cam… (View Post)
Partly it's the difference in brain wiring that correlates a bit with which political instincts. An overfocus on what can go wrong makes socialism attractive, an underfocus does the same for libertar… (View Post)
Given how far off the reservation the Conservatives have wandered, Frosty probably is what passes for mainstream now. Bear in mind that Rishi Sunak (basically a transistorised Peter Lilley politicall… (View Post)