An interesting thing about the Polish election is that (per this skeet) young people apparently turned out at higher rates than old people. If that gets repeated elsewhere then politics will look com… (View Post)

Can't they do basically the previous state of affairs only with more guys on and near the border? Hamas managed to break through their defences this time but it seems like the Israelis weren't really… (View Post)

Hi to whoever it was who was asked "please give me 1 word to describe the Conservative Party" and said "Conservative". (View Post)

Weirdly the things that make those French lines cheap also make it pretty unsuitable for high-speed rail. See Yglesias: https://www.slowboring.com/p/amtrak-should-build-a-good-train The counterpoint … (View Post)

Sunak is so weird, it's like he's trying to do Trumpism from a catalog. It doesn't work, to pull it off you need to be the kind of person who would call up a child at Christmas time and tell them the… (View Post)