Spain started sniffing around the EEC in the 1960s, but was politely (but firmly) told that it was nowhere near democratic enough. The accession negotiations started pretty sharpish once the old dict… (View Post)

More likely, people have a misplaced trust that, if the news media goes big on a story, it must be important. See my favourite "time to end the disatrous democratic experiment" polling; Nor… (View Post)

It would have been a smart idea, had the pandemic been properly over, as part of Operation Back To Normal. Doing EOTHO in Summer 2020 was like celebrating victory in the Battle of Britain with a mass… (View Post)

Most of the families affected by the two child cap have got an adult in work. Or are you thinking of pensioners? (View Post)

About ten percent do. So I'm about 5.5 times less wrong than those saying that the two child cap was about families who don't work. (View Post)