Yes, I agree. If you're contacting your MP, sometimes you want somebody who you feel will be sympathetic to your issue and willing to make an effort on your behalf -- then being able to who you … (View Post)

...because generally carrots are more popular with voters than sticks, and the latter policy would likely trigger a massive gumming up of the housing market, possibly a housing price crash and defini… (View Post)

...which I think sums up why the US is no longer selecting its Presidential candidates from a slate of experienced governors, secretaries of states and former military top brass -- in the modern mass… (View Post)

...except perhaps people who wanted an effective civil service, since disproportionately the good people will have left and government will be left with those not confident of finding a job elsewhere… (View Post)

The implicit belief that people in shitty situations are stuck there because of some fault of theirs, not mere bad luck and circumstance, is very widely held, because to believe the opposite would be… (View Post)