I would peg the motivation here more as being that "big thing may happen!" is news and sells papers, whereas "thing everybody expects to happen will probably happen" does not. (View Post)

Right now, I think the EU has no serious interest in us rejoining, just as we have no serious interest in rejoining it. But things change over time. We weren't wanted in the EEC in 1963, but we … (View Post)

Given there are a ton of other online vendors who don't charge a fee for the same service, it's not a "save time or pay" question, in my view... (View Post)

The question with those Haley voters is how many are "I'm a committed republican and will vote R in the general but strongly want to signal to the party that there is a base of non-Trumpy v… (View Post)

Wow. That's two big political events this month where my predictions were totally wrong (I expected an autumn UK election and a hung jury in the Trump trial). Still just time to fit in a third :… (View Post)