Regarding North Sea oil... The fiscal argument is being overstated on both sides. Yes, the £25bn figure is doing a lot of heroic work. Even OEUK’s own case is cumulative, conditional, and heavily dep… (View Post)

This has always been Labour’s fundamental tension. The traditional labour movement was built around working-class communities whose priorities were jobs, wages, housing and economic security, and man… (View Post)

That’s fair as a matter of logic. “We must do something. This is something. Therefore we must do it” is indeed a poor argument. But that’s not actually the argument being made. The argument is: 1. So… (View Post)

That’s my understanding too. The proposal appears to be about restricting YouTube accounts rather than access to YouTube videos. Which makes some sense if the concern is the social media aspects of t… (View Post)

Public policy doesn’t just regulate behaviour. It helps shape social norms. We saw it with smoking. We saw it with drink-driving. We saw it with seatbelts. The objective isn’t merely to stop every un… (View Post)