I agree; I feel like this polling suggests Starmer could be being a bit less cautious about the closer ties than he seems to think he need to be, though. (View Post)

I just finished DeLong's economic history of the 20th century, _Slouching Towards Utopia_, and he reckons it all went wrong with the turn towards neoliberalism in the 1980s... (He also thinks the US … (View Post)

Not taking a position on this case, but even if I were at a level of language comprehension where I'd be on a university course in the literature of that language, I think I would still be pretty str… (View Post)

I might change my mind on this in twenty years time, but personally I think funerals are for the living, so I'd only do something if it was a "make life easier for whoever it is that has to deal… (View Post)

"If you could vote *against* one party [...] who would you vote *for*" seems like terrible question wording... (View Post)