Nobody is assassinating MPs in the hopes of getting a byelection, though. They do it for publicity, or a personal grudge, or to intimidate public figures into not speaking out on some issue, or sny o… (View Post)

I think you're probably right, but maybe it'll concentrate minds knowing that if he wins he's much harder to shift for a whole year? Rules out the "delay just a month or two until… (View Post)

I think the other thing that helps is working for a company that sees software as one of its core competencies, not as a cost centre that it grudgingly funds as little as possible while it gets on wi… (View Post)

I know you track this closer than I do so quite likely I'm misinterpreting the text, but their note about adding reinfections says "specimen date metrics will be revised back to the beginni… (View Post)

The thing about this theory is that it assumes that the motive of an MP-murderer is to try to shift the balance of the Commons -- which to my mind seems absolutely absurd. On any of the more plausibl… (View Post)