It would be very difficult to ban the conducting of opinion polls but much easier to ban the publication of them - which would lead to parties commissioning, and leaking, their internal polling. Obvi… (View Post)

Healey has just made a (non-)statement in the House in reply to a question about these rumours. There is no prospect whatsoever of a nuclear war over this. Storm Shadows have been used previously int… (View Post)

No, Russia is losing. How come, you might reasonably ask, when it's advancing and Trump has just been elected? Well, a bit* like how Germany was losing in early 1918, even though it was advancing and… (View Post)

The absurdity of the farm land inheritance tax debate is that the very rich can and do avoid IHT altogether with decent planning, which of course they do, having the resources and incentive. Those lo… (View Post)

Probably. Isn't there something like a 16 year cycle on these things? Probably something to do with sun spots or whatever? We had some cold / snowy winters c2010. Probably heading back into that trou… (View Post)