Can we have the thread header for another thread later today? Vanilla won't let me read it, and I'm quite interested in what AlenBrookehas to say (I largely agreed with part 1, but thought his "… (View Post)

. If that's true (and I'm not sure that's entirely true, at least based on my observations of friends, co-workers, etc), that's a lot of people setting themselves up for a remarkably miserable existe… (View Post)

. Great question, and hard to answer beyond saying it will be painful. My general point is that UK governments current operate (and have done for at least 50 years) what is a fundamentally a populati… (View Post)

I'd imagine if the US had an electoral commission, it would somehow end up a key secondary battleground to which partisan people were appointed, rather like the supreme court. (View Post)

Given that pressure on housing and pressure for both parents to work in order to pay for housing is one of the key factors in the lower numbers of kids people have, if we didn't keep filling in the g… (View Post)