This is of course not a coincidence...much easier to be a loon if you're not worried about the risk of your more centrist constituents taking a disliking to you. (View Post)

Yes, that seems plausible to me -- even if a given leader was who persuaded you to support party X originally, once you're there your views aren't going to shift that quickly just because t… (View Post)

I tend to assume that that kind of road layout happens because it's designed largely by people who largely travel by car rather than cycle, according to guidelines codified by civil servants who… (View Post)

By this argument, an elected government abolishing elections would be a democratic act. Personally I would say that the government can do all sorts of things which might support or erode democracy, a… (View Post)

The current system could certainly benefit from simplification and clarification (for instance a friend was complaining to me about how tricky it is to find out what the evening-peak restrictions, if… (View Post)