Don't Palantir have access to most of it anyway? More likely, it's a fishing operation by the US Government, giving them the opportunity to make life very unpleasant for visitors they don&#… (View Post)

Once you start down the "more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules" road, where do you stop? (View Post)

Agreed, but there are a couple of catches. One is that there is an art to the insult, and 'lanyard-wearing class' doesn't have sufficient art. There is too much collateral damage. The … (View Post)

Hard to tell when the Conservative standard-bearers since then have been Shaun Bailey and Susan Hall. Neither of them came anywhere near 'semi-plausible candidate to run the nation's capita… (View Post)

If an insult needs glossing like that, it's a bad insult. Especially if you are an electoral politician and it causes people who might give you half the time of day to think that you hate them o… (View Post)