I think this is right, and it's a necessary step for Sunak to try to shift the polls. It's a big roll of the dice that seems to have landed on 1 not 6. I'm with @numbertwelve in that I… (View Post)

That's just it - it's not a Labour thing specifically but the difference between ideologically driven activists (who are essential to the energy driving a political party) and the hard-head… (View Post)

Just catching up. Blimey, what a relief. I thought we were stuck with this lot until Christmas. There are some moments when Bostrom's argument that we are almost certainly living in a computer s… (View Post)

That being said, Strava makes people do silly things. Early on in the Syrian civil war I was in Reyhanli on the Turkey/Syria border with a colleague who decided to borrow a bike in order to create a … (View Post)

I hit 80kph (55mph) on a fully loaded touring bike on the Andean downhill from Santiago to Mendoza in a stonking tailwind. It was terrifying but I was young and foolhardy at the time. (View Post)