This attitude is a recipe for the entire world getting nothing done because you can always make a reasonably convincing argument that someone else is worse, or the response would be more cost-effecti… (View Post)

The British love the word "freedom" but they hate the actual thing, so the perfect policy would be to have a Freedom Day that you are legally obligated to celebrate, after which you're… (View Post)

So I generally support whistleblowing, ie people with privileged access to secret information publicizing it to reveal wrongdoing. However the *security camera* aspect of this thing seems kind of out… (View Post)

I hadn't heard about this and I don't like to try to connect online identities to RL identities but from now on I'm just going to assume that any self-identified Conservative Party mem… (View Post)

If you tax property properly - ie owners are at least paying a proportion of the land value, regardless of what they put on it - the owners will generally sell a place like this if they can't fi… (View Post)