He's a useful idiot for Russia, just like his mate Trump. (View Post)

That's simply false. No commitment was ever made to the USSR/Russia about NATO expansion*. This is an invented Russian trope, that they had a promise that was betrayed, and therefore they need to con… (View Post)

It should not be hard to dig up dozens of clips of Trump saying mad stuff about Russia and Ukraine, and put them alongside lots of clips of Farage praising Trump and hanging out with him. Any CCHQ wo… (View Post)

Exactly what Paul Johnson at the IFS was saying. Working people will pay more tax because of fiscal drag, and there will still need to be significant tax increases as the alternative required cuts to… (View Post)

I've no beef with the data, assuming it's useful and collected properly. Data isn't the problem, it's the turning data into ranks and pretending that that tells us something useful. It almost always … (View Post)