Mmm. Our system gives quite a lot of power to an elected government during its term, which means there's a lot of leeway for it to take quite sharp turns in overall policy direction. (Compare th… (View Post)

Why are DB pensions inherently unaffordable when DC are not? What you actually mean is "massively cut their pensions", which is going to be equally (un)popular regardless. (To my mind, the … (View Post)

If you flipped the Tory process around I think that might help without being so much of a non-starter as just removing the membership participation. Have a lots-of-candidates hustings process, give m… (View Post)

Friend of mine used to call those "stew hats"... (View Post)

Especially if you can get it at a reasonable price via an advance-purchase ticket... (View Post)