I learnt by watching and helping my mum with the Independent's cryptic when I was a teenager. It's a lot easier and less intimidating to get started when you only need to do one or two clues and you … (View Post)

I will accept anything the people doing the hard work of cooking see fit to put on the table :-) (View Post)

I don't have a strong view on the voting age question, but I think you can be consistent in both: * disapproving of voter photo ID because it reduces the number of people who vote * approving of redu… (View Post)

I would have thought that the other reason most MPs don't attend debates would be that they have no effect on the outcome - in almost all cases MPs will vote with their party and even a good short we… (View Post)

Some other non reddit forums I'm on that have survived have done so either because they're almost a closed community, where the central posters know each other well enough that they're there to talk … (View Post)