Right; the reason that doing something about the WFA was perpetually on the Treasury's list of suggestions they put to new CofEs and why successive CofEs ignored the suggestion (according to Osborne)… (View Post)

That's because Reform's support is pretty broadly spread, exactly unlike the LDs, and they run a purely national campaign rather than a target-seats ground game, also unlike the LDs. So Reform are no… (View Post)

I personally think the answer to that is that you vote on values, which I think is a big component of most voters' decision anyway. Being in government means dealing with whatever random events and s… (View Post)

I liked Naomi Novik's "what if the Napoleonic Wars but all sides had dragons?" novels, but this what-if is probably not very relevant to us today... (View Post)

Haneda has international flights too these days and is much more convenient than Narita (just half an hour on the monorail gets you into Tokyo proper). I was in Japan last month -- the overtourism is… (View Post)