Murrell embezzled to “bankroll the lavish lifestyle he craved but could not afford”, says Assistant Chief Constable Stuart Houston. Yet Nicola Sturgeon was ignorant of this? I don’t understand how th… (View Post)

If you have lots of parties, then no system, not FPTP or anything else, will deliver a majority in Parliament. The choice is not between clear majorities with FPTP versus messy coalitions with PR. No… (View Post)

It says a lot about the narrative that Farage is trying to establish, of a man under attack. A hack speaks to malevolent powers attacking him. A leak, however, speaks to disenchanted allies, or pisse… (View Post)

Multiparty politics means no-one is going to get a clear result, so do you want an unclear result that is proportional or an unclear result that isn’t? (Israeli politics would be worse under FPTP. Th… (View Post)

“Local myth” is an even less reliable source of information than social media. (View Post)