The biggest single influencing factor on life prospects is birth circumstance - to whom and where you are born. If you find this fact unpleasant and disturbing you will support policies aimed at redu… (View Post)

Some punchy anti-fash material from you over the last few days. Hats off. (View Post)

Possibly. But in general I don't think the police have a duty to keep us informed blow by blow on a murder investigation. For myself I'm quite content to hear nothing for a while as they wo… (View Post)

On topic: in political punting (absent a data edge) there's often 2 ways to assess the chances of X happening. The bottoms up micro analytical way. What you do here is work out the chain of even… (View Post)

Yes, I sort of agree. The body of work of each PBer (esp the deeper ones) can take on new and different meanings as the world in which it resides evolves. I'd give an example but I don't th… (View Post)