Despite looking so similar getting each of those passes has different procedures and levels of scrutiny to obtain it. For the over 60s pass you have to provide a passport or driving licence, or if yo… (View Post)

I think a lot of the pro Biden talk is people kidding themselves because the alternative is so utterly awful. If the Republicans had someone as dull and half-competent as Romney, then I think most pe… (View Post)

I find the idea that borrowing a huge but smaller than expected sum gives us "wiggle room" bizarre. It's merely a stay of execution, we aren't out of jail. (View Post)

It's one of those useless aggregated statistics a bit like GDP, or GDP per capita, like I was explaining last week, which tells you very little about what is happening to the average person. What you… (View Post)

Don't be a berk. When people made similarly snide comments about Libya it turned out that UK special forces had arrived in the country before the complaints even started. You can be certain that ther… (View Post)