There certainly has to be some group of voters out there that approve -- I assume there's no way a party puts out something like this without it getting through focus-group testing... (View Post)

...of course, you have to hope you can correctly identify that other location. I'm currently listening to the 2012 Reith lectures which were by conservative-leaning economic historian Niall Ferg… (View Post)

Yes, it's amazeing... I blame the labyrinthine bureaucracy, personally. (View Post)

Yeah; the flipside of "you have a massive electoral mountain to climb to get to a majority" is "anybody who stuck with you at the base of the trough is unlikely to be drifting elsewher… (View Post)

Mmm, having dodged it and all other coughs, colds and miscellaneous respiratory ailments since 2019 I finally caught it a couple of weeks ago. It does seem to be rather variable in how hard it hits. … (View Post)