Insofar as I can see most of them aren't acting out of any sort of moral conviction at all. They're simply trying to calculate which course of action is most likely to keep them in a job. (View Post)

It would be nice to think this was the case, but you're assuming that the same group of people who found none of Johnson's previous misdemeanours sufficient cause to act will be motivated t… (View Post)

I have a complete terror of heights. Watching anything like that makes me feel queasy. (View Post)

The UK Government spent the money on the whole of the UK, including Scotland. So if we're going to decide all of a sudden that we want a fund to be set up after all, retrospectively, over a cent… (View Post)

Point 1: No they're not, they're just another form of tax. The Government may choose, for the sake of some loosely defined concept of fairness, to vary the payment of some benefits accordin… (View Post)