No, the economic turds were built up by your mate the Chancellor from 2020 to 2022 and his predecessors over the 10 years before that. The fact that with one quick squeeze of his bowels his successor… (View Post)

No, on the contrary. The Tories want to nail all the current woes on the very short-lived Truss episode, and pretend that they were an abberation that has nothing to do with sound economic management… (View Post)

We do indeed need to look at the nitty gritty as you say, but even without that there is a particular danger to the approach of assuming that the Republicans will prevail based on random statistical … (View Post)

No that's not a good bet. Looking at 538 there are 20 House seats left to call. The Republicans have 211, the Democrats 204, with 218 needed for a majority. So you are betting that the Republicans wi… (View Post)

Portugal is definitely not fucked. That's based on an extended stay with family in central Portugal last Autumn when my son married a Portuguese lass, in the main spent well away from the main touris… (View Post)