A Plan For Government? That would be a refreshing change, at least... (View Post)

There was a radio 4 podcast a while back on the triple lock, where one guest suggested that the way to sell getting rid of it was that you announce a target, e.g. "pension income should be 1/3 o… (View Post)

Mmm. Somewhere in about 2019 I came to the view that Brexit was likely to make us a bit worse off, but that it would not be by so much or be so obviously linked as to really cause anybody to change t… (View Post)

Yeah, I found something similar -- the check-for-a-human process got stuck on the main site, but worked ok directly on the vanilla website, and once I'd passed it on the vanilla site then the ch… (View Post)

On the last part, my take is that we have a pretty strong ingroup/outgroup divide in our psychology: so we can behave "nicely" and cooperatively in ways that help people we see as in our gr… (View Post)