Under 40%? Labour only just topped 40% in May. It's entirely possible that Labour's vote is in the 20s, with an Islamist party taking votes in East London, the Greens hoovering up the stude… (View Post)

@TimS I should probably warn you that @viewcode is Liz Truss. (View Post)

When the state issues a driving license to someone who kills someone in an accident, the state is equally complicit. And conversely, when the state lets an asylum seeker in who performs the Heimlich … (View Post)

The question, really, though is how much more (if any) is the deterrent of execution relative to spending the rest of your life in a US prison without parole. Personally, I think I'd probably ch… (View Post)

This is a good analysis, but it bears mentioning that some states first banned the death penalty (creating a change event we can see), and then reintroduced it (ditto), so we do have some analysis of… (View Post)