Tough on cliches, tough on the causes of cliches ? (View Post)

The time available to study in the school timetable is not infiinite, so at some point you have to make choices. You can't study everything important at a level of detail that also teaches the basics… (View Post)

Yes, that's not allowed in the UK either. But you can design the process to allow all the slow signature comparison to be done in advance and all the checked ballots put into a sealed ballot box for … (View Post)

It does not -- MPs (and Ministers) aren't treated as employees, they're "office holders" (see the answer to this FOIA request and this one). So the PM is not 'firing' a minister in the usua… (View Post)

I think far more people vote on neither of those but vote on some mix of "this is my team/this is who I've always voted for/this is the party I trust in general", especially in the US where… (View Post)