Kicking a ball into an empty net is easy, unless you're Diana Ross. Labour needs to find the backbone to defend its policies and to explain them. The Tories might have more trouble then. (View Post)

A Lab majority is not a certainty by any means. The number of gains they need is huge. However: - Yes, some of the ex-Con DKs will return but so will some of the ex-Lab DKs. - A lot of the ex-Con DKs… (View Post)

The tree-ring record is fairly comprehensive to about 11,000 years ago. Ultimately, it doesn't really matter if 5 July 7614 BC was a couple of hundredths of a degree warmer. What matters is the … (View Post)

I don't know. Even if you do expect things to get worse, there's still a natural tendency among many to wait if they also expect to lose now. However, politicians are naturally optimistic a… (View Post)

On topic, Sunak will not call an election he expects to lose unless he expects things to get dramatically worse in the remaining period of the parliament. As he would expect to lose unless the Tory p… (View Post)