Which self are you thinking of? Yousaf reminds me of Jim Hacker. Not ill-meaning, but not there because anyone really thought he was up to the job. It's just that one of his rivals for the leadership… (View Post)
Possible that he had an arrangement with the whips. Same goes for TMexPM, who also didn't vote on the Rwanda bill. (303 Conservatives voted for, 172 Labour against. So there was clearly some pairing,… (View Post)
The irony of 2019 onwards (and probably 2016 itself). The people who voted for it may have been largely nationalists, hoping for some version of a nationalist project. But the people at the top were … (View Post)
The second bit is what bothers me. It's really not obvious where the cash generated by the UK selling stuff off has gone, in the sense of "that thing there X, it was paid for by privatising Y.&q… (View Post)
I can't remember who coined the term 'simplism', or applied it to political thinking, but there's a lot of it about. Basically, any argument that boils down to They Should Just... is simplism. Especi… (View Post)