The OED has cites for that sense back to 1866, so it's hardly a recent divergence... (View Post)

Yes on the second; but on the first, if I was living in Gaza I would also probably be pretty reluctant to discuss Hamas on the radio, for purely personal safety reasons... (View Post)

Also, the "Nick Griffin did badly on QT so we should give all these fringe groups airtime to hang themselves with" theory assumes that fascist leaders are never going to be eloquent or pers… (View Post)

I imagine they'd point out that Christ had a criminal conviction, for that matter... (View Post)

More generally, in a good non-fptp system voters can provide more information into the system: instead of only being able to say "LD" I can say "LD would be best, but Labour would be O… (View Post)