I have also experienced government making its mind up at the start of an evaluation, but is that at the behest of the civil servants or because a politician has made that decision? (View Post)

Boris got 44% in 2019. Reform UK are polling around 30-32%. They need a third of their support again to match Boris. (View Post)

It seems odd to say that Social Security and Medicare cuts are “off the table” for Republicans when Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill contains massive cuts to the US welfare state. (View Post)

Populism (right or left) loves to blame someone else. It’s them, over there, with their gold-plated pensions, or immigrants, or Muslims, or Jews, or just all over, generalised, woke. (View Post)

See fig. 7 at https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/deportation-and-voluntary-departure-from-the-uk/ Chinese people make up 8% of deportations from the UK. (View Post)