It's easy to have a voting system that delivers an unambiguous choice of government. (Russia has one of those, for example.) You also want that unambiguous choice of government to go to a party … (View Post)

FPTP simply doesn't make sense when no party can manage above 30%. For most of my life, polling 29% in the UK meant you were the losing party. (View Post)

Probably true, but nonetheless FPTP definitely breaks on these kinds of numbers. What's the last national FPTP election anywhere in the world were the largest party was on ~29%? That's not … (View Post)

Clegg left Meta earlier this year. (View Post)

Jewish immigration from eastern and central Europe caused huge moral panic at the time. The Daily Mail was full of articles that read... well, just like today's articles about Muslims, or worse.… (View Post)