. 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)

Aren't you reading the tealeaves wrong there? I'm one of those who did vote for Boris*, would have voted for Truss (she had the diagnosis right, and possibly the solutions, just made a hash of the pr… (View Post)

Mate of mine has been touring with Ed Sheeran as a technician recently. Spoke very highly of him, both in terms of him being decent to work for (he's apparently a genuinely nice bloke, and takes in i… (View Post)