Reform may need to go beyond their base to win a general election. (View Post)

They long have. What Reform haven’t been able to do, I suggest, is create a vision for populist right government that is distinct from the increasingly discredited approach of Trump/Vance/Miller/Thie… (View Post)

To go off on a tangent, the best anthropology book about Taiwan I've read is "The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality and the Spirit World in Taiwan" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haunting-… (View Post)

Lots of other OECD countries have moved to sending half their population or more to university. Seems to work fine, or better than fine, for them. Conflict of interest statement: They pay my wages. W… (View Post)

I went to a great lecture about how to get a gold medal in the Olympics. (I can be topical!) It said gold medallists had usually started taking a sport seriously at a young age, but the choice of spo… (View Post)