All hail the brilliance of which ever Oxford Liberal Democrat ensured that Agent Truss would infiltrate and destroy the Conservative Party. (View Post)

But how? As any membership organisation shrinks, it become more concentrated on the most active activists who talk more to each other and less to anyone else. All those people who only joined the Con… (View Post)

Economics of how to allocate finite police and court resources. Which is the only sort of economics that matters. Let's say a stolen bike causes £300 of harm to society. How much police time is … (View Post)

The charitable answer is that the Conservatives have gone insane. The less charitable answer is that they are going for the terrible hypocrite vote; the sort of people who want maximum controls on Ot… (View Post)

The other possibility is a variant on the "grotesquely monumentally stupid" theory. The actual functioning of politics has depended, for all my life, on a cohort of bright young things, mos… (View Post)