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Re: Heart of Oak – politicalbetting.com
The only paternoster I ever encountered was at Sheffield University in 1978. It was a cold and foggy December day, the bus fare from the station to the campus was 2p and I have no other recollection of that day. -
Re: This poll feels like a reflection of name recognition – politicalbetting.com
This is the problem the Tories face. They have a leader who thinks we all just forget what she and her colleagues did. You can't take her or them seriously when they're denouncing the things they themselves have just been doing. The Phillips letter? Awful! The Solloway letter which said the same thing to the same council?… -
Re: How’s VAT? – politicalbetting.com
A mistake to react in that way but the post does step into whataboutery. Topic 1 - is private education a luxury good and are private schools businesses masquerading as charities? I'd argue yes to both, the charitable status Labour backed off from because it was too difficult AIUI. Topic 2 - buying a house in a school… -
Re: Farewell to the year with two massive elections – politicalbetting.com
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226296803_Likelihood_to_rape_in_college_males "Thirty-four percent reported some proclivity to rape or force sex. Participants who reported both proclivities indicated higher rape myth acceptance, offered more justifications for the increasing use of violence against women, were… -
Re: So far the voters do not see Badenoch as a Prime Minister in waiting – politicalbetting.com
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Re: A Good Sport? – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Regulating for Growth – politicalbetting.com
. He’s wrong to say Britain is selling them off. These are private/listed companies being acquired. All his column is really is a whine about British companies being bought by US companies. He offers no solution anyway I am hardly refuting the case just pointing out one of the reasons. There are things we can do but… -
Re: It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future… – politicalbetting.com
That's my sense of it. It's a Court and its function is to amuse and entertain Him. -
Re: Size isn’t important, it’s what you do with it that counts, just ask Jeremy Corbyn
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Re: Challenges – politicalbetting.com
They think they are clever because they are successful. And so they can make the "right" decisions because they are clever. But politics isn't deterministic and "right" and "wrong" are opinions, not facts, and can change from moment to moment. So technocracy and plutocracy stop working over time. -
Re: The annual St John PB Christmas crossword – politicalbetting.com
Many thanks,StJohn. Although I didn't compete actively I enjoyed following the efforts of others. Please don't make it easier. It's the appropriate place and time for a challenge. Have a happy and successful 2025, and here's to the Villans in the top four. -
Re: The Christmas Eve evening open thread – politicalbetting.com
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Re: A brutal chart for Labour from the FT – politicalbetting.com
There was eight years between the banking collapse and the Brexit vote, and about five years after that until Brexit actually happened at the end of the transition period, so the density of economic shocks was about normal until the period since the pandemic started. -
Re: Make your suggestions – politicalbetting.com
So, essentially, high Bitcoin values are a danger to all developed economies and the living standards of pretty much everyone. -
Re: The changing face of the electorate – politicalbetting.com
You can give 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote, but will they do so? What if it's only Young Etonians who bother? -
Re: History today – politicalbetting.com
While you are drinking your evening milk, you can be listening to The Wombles on R4 every evening this week, 6.15 pm -
Re: Great expectations for 2025 – politicalbetting.com
You still have OB that patrol? How quaint. We have one car that patrols the A38 between Plymouth and Exeter. Pretty much given up down here; instead we occasionally have the vans with a camera and a bloke with a flask of tea. -
Re: This poll is barking – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Could becoming a republic be the only way to keep Scotland in the Union? – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Is Trump seeking to enter Gödel’s loophole? – politicalbetting.com
Mon dieu This seems…. Suboptimal “Emmanuel Macron swore during a furious exchange with residents of the cyclone-hit islands of Mayotte on Thursday night, telling a jeering crowd in the French territory “if this wasn’t France, you’d be in a bath of shit 10,000 times worse”.” GUARDIAN