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)

85, and still presenting weekly episodes of In Our Time... (View Post)

When I was a kid you had a number, not a card (I can still remember our family's coop number 40 years on), and you had to go and collect your "dividend" from the main coop in town once a ye… (View Post)