FPTP should be removed because it's broken rather than out of party-interest. But its beneficiaries won't change it, so Labour will need to win an election under FPTP first. (View Post)
I claim that people in Ireland understand it as well as they need to. Or at least that my family, whose judgment I trust, tell me that people in Ireland understand it as well as they need to. That do… (View Post)
On the topic of Alastair Meeks' article, it's very good and I agree with most of it. One paragraph that irks though: "The opposition, however, would probably be ill-advised to place too much emp… (View Post)
"The world is not ending in eight years" - you are right, and I was horrified to hear some XR activists suggest that it is. Any scientist with genuine expertise would reject that claim &quo… (View Post)
It's sad that this has become a left/right issue. I think the reasons for that are more complex than is being presented (especially the idea that the left want people to be poorer!). Here's an inexha… (View Post)