I agree your take. Mamdani's win gives a shot of feel-good to people looking for evidence that populism doesn't have to be reactionary and insular to succeed at the ballot box. But, you know, it's Ne… (View Post)

Yes, I was. So in fact US govt health spending (per head) by itself beats ours on the NHS? Gosh. Incredible. So add in the private side and it must be massively more. I guess that's why Americans are… (View Post)

Yes, Donald Trump has changed the GOP from top to bottom. It's a quite remarkable achievement if we can use that word for something wholly malign. Hopefully there's a detox when he's gone but I would… (View Post)

True. He's the right choice here though. (View Post)

I have to say that on the 'winding up the right people' metric Mamdani performs spectacularly. If that's what this election is about we are surely looking at a landslide. (View Post)