From a purely tactical perspective, Sunak played the mortgage payments wrong. He should’ve dumped on that on Truss and said sorry for the actions of that government, and moved forward in that vein. T… (View Post)

Because the situation is complicated. I think most of us start from a position that healthcare provision in the country should be and deserves to be better, though the NHS in large part does an admir… (View Post)

Re Germany: the economy and the immigration issue seem to be the big reasons. And the fact that the junior coalition partners don’t really get along. I think Scholz has an image problem too. For bett… (View Post)

Vaping for me was an invaluable tool to get me off cigarettes. I think it is very likely I would still be smoking today if it wasn’t for them. However I do have a mixed relationship with it. It serve… (View Post)

No. At least not yet. The idea that the Russian military is capable of sweeping through Europe after their Ukrainian misadventure (however that ends) is one for the birds. But what is likely is that … (View Post)