And with five parties, the distribution of votes is mega-important. You can utterly clean up on thirtysomething percent of the vote, provided the opposition vote is uniform enough. The reason the lef… (View Post)

For some people, lack of favouritism is impossible to distinguish from retribution. (View Post)

Though Welby was a very junior bishop when he got the Canterbury gig- he'd been in Durham for just over a year. George Carey didn't spend that long eating babies in Bath and Wells before ge… (View Post)

That's sinful human nature for you. We all tend to mentally minimise the bad things we do, we all tend to maximise our importance to the institution. And things always look different in the bunk… (View Post)

All you need is the final paragraph: Here’s hoping that federal funding will be allocated to scientific research that will answer open questions on national security and extraterrestrials. We owe the… (View Post)