That headline isn't really a great summary of what the article says. What it's describing as "scientific caution" is skepticism about the idea that it was possible in practice to … (View Post)

Talking of attack ads, oof https://twitter.com/RVAT2020/status/1268999115595276289 (View Post)

I worried about that when he was first elected but now wouldn't put it that strongly. Trump's main interest is in petty grievances and stealing, the republic would probably survive it. (View Post)

On topic, I wouldn't expect Boris to get back to his April peak, which was a freak number resulting from the 9/11 effect where when a leader massively fails and causes lots of voters to die, the… (View Post)

Life *was* going on, parliament were meeting perfectly adequately over the internet. Getting the prevalence "fairly low" isn't enough if you go back to exact same habits that caused it… (View Post)