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)

About 60,000 have been deported since the election. (View Post)

The white working class have had to show far more forbearance to deindustrialisation and the big increases in wealth inequality since the '50s. The idea that immigration is some foundational sin… (View Post)