Been reminded again today of a fundamental truth. If you can't articulate why someone might disagree with you in good faith, you aren't arguing against them, you're arguing against a totem of them that only exists in your imagination.

Slavia snowflakes

Just imagine the poor soul who gets awarded it next time

Exactly this!! Cannot understand how they were convinced to drop Leveson 2. Presumably on the inexplicably misguided belief that the RW press would stay on side

thanks. definitely agree rents are too high! just seems that even if say half of the rent is paid by the state then LLs effectively have more people able to bid up the price. but I don't have any real evidence to back up a direct link to increasing rents so don't really know either way!

thanks, appreciate the answer. I suspected it might be an overly simplistic link to make, it just seems kind of intuitive. but I guess intuitive doesn't mean true

is there not an argument that housing benefit just goes straight to landlords and increases rents etc? so it's helpful to an individual but has unintended consequences?

More of this please, Labour desperately need to make the case for decency and compassion!

Financial crisis was an external event, I think you would have got many many more if you had included adoption of austerity policies.

strange (to me) to include the 97 election, but not the decision to invade Iraq. 97 ushered in/coincided with good times, which began to seriously unravel with Iraq...

Hooray! thanks will do

hi, if there are any left I'd love one!

so we got rid of JA, who did we get instead of him?