I like dull politicians but I do wonder if somebody like Starmer can make it in the social media age. Since Twitter started dominating the discourse there's been a tendency for successful politi… (View Post)

OT interesting bet, Caplan was wildly right and Steyn was totally wrong, but Caplan offered generous terms and only won his bet by the skin of his teeth: https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan/status/12122… (View Post)

What the opposition does in the British system is pick someone they voters don't fear, and preferably like, and wait for the government to bollocks things up. But before they do that the members… (View Post)

So if it's RLB vs Starmer vs Phillips it's kind of Corbynism vs Experienced non-Corbynist vs Feisty Non-Corbynist. Imagine the Corbynist got eliminated, is it safe to assume the Corbynist s… (View Post)

So everything everybody hears on the doorstep seems to confirm their existing priors. Is everybody full of shit about what they're hearing or are the voters trying to be friendly and reflecting … (View Post)