I presume the charge is not for failing to stop Israel, but because the UK has (supposedly) aided a genocide because the UK is selling (a small number of) arms to Israel and has provided other milita… (View Post)

#pbpedantry He didn't. It was an apocryphal story told later, and the point of the story was that Cnut was making the point that he couldn't stop the tides to demonstrate humility before Go… (View Post)

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)