But it's always the case that events come along that the government must react to which nobody foresaw and which were mentioned in no manifesto, even if they're usually not as all-consuming… (View Post)

Sounds politically unlikely to me :-) I think that the effects of the 2-week lag between actions and outcomes will kick in in the opposite direction. On the up-curve, each new measure or imposition i… (View Post)

It's only a checkup, so if you're not comfortable going (and you aren't having any actual pain/other problems that might indicate a need for something to be done) I'd just phone t… (View Post)

I would suggest that one of the lessons of 2017-19 is that neither of the two main parties is going to fracture; the strains are great, but the bindings imposed by FPTP are greater. If the Tories wou… (View Post)

I dunno if I'd go overboard with the comparison. It was a genuinely independent report (and there are one or two RAIB-style things like referring to everybody by job title rather than by name), … (View Post)