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France does not have PR. The national assembly is elected from 577 single member constituencies. Italy does not have PR. The Italian chamber of deputies is elected by a complex system that guarantees 54% of the seats to the largest party/coalition if they win 40% of the popular vote. The Meloni...

Betting the country’s future on First Past the Post is like gambling with “a random number generator”.

If you look at democracies that use FPTP—which are actually quite rare—you’ll find they all tend to show the same divisiveness, take no prisoners campaigning, fantasy politics and very high polarisation. They also have a marked tendency towards alienated and poorly informed electorates, very...

The harsh reality is that voters suck because electoral systems suck. Australia uses RCV. I usually vote 1 Green 2 Labor. 80% of Green voters do, but the other 20% vote 1 Green 2 Liberal. (The Liberals are the main party of the right) They want action on climate change but they're economic...

Who among us hasn’t forgotten at times that Kamala Harris is the Democratic nominee?

They haven’t moved the Overton Window. They’ve shut it down. They don’t care about policy, just seeing their fellow citizens weep.

Anyone want to bet on how long before Trump announces he doesn’t know Mark Robinson and he’s never met him?

You are deliberately refusing to understand the full horror of the situation. What kind of meat do you think those food processing businesses are selling?

I know it advantages Trump, but seriously, every other democracy has uniform rules for ballot access and withdrawal, and those decisions are not controversial.

Trump has announced Taylor Swift will pay. It’s obvious what he plans. Trump is lots better looking than she is. We know he can dance. Think Trump gyrating on stage in red lace. He will sing classics like ‘Daddy Swiped our Last Clean Sheet and Joined the Ku Klux Klan’ and ‘Mystic City and The...

The way this is going the Trump campaign will demand that his mike gets muted whenever he speaks in future debates.

Peter Thiel has paywalled Nate Silver.

None of those removals had anything to do with medical conditions that were unknown to the parliamentary parties. Churchill’s most serious stroke in office was on 23 June 1953. He did not resign until 5 April 1955. Eden was forced out because of the Suez catastrophe, not health issues...

People are living much longer. Politicians are staying in office much longer. We are going to see a lot more politicians who are suffering dementia without knowing it themselves. There are multiple examples of heads of government concealing their medical conditions from the legislature and the...

Churchill had several strokes and was 80 when he left office. Eden was on massive doses of prescription and illegal drugs that may well have caused his incredibly bad decision making in the Suez crisis. We have no way of knowing when Thatcher's dementia set in.

Successful votes of no confidence are actually incredibly rare. Generally they do not lead to a change of government, but to an election. The last time government changed hands after a vote of no confidence without an election in Australia was 1942. That is not an effective way of dealing with a...

All presidents and prime ministers should have to pass a medical at regular intervals. And it should be an independent board, not their personal physicians, that administers the medical.

I generally trust Snopes, but not this time. There is absolutely no sign of a fifth finger. The three visible fingers have the extensor muscles you’d expect. There’s no extensor muscle for the missing finger. Look at your own hand, then try to hide your index finger behind your thumb or middle...

Simple explanation. The Walz family has a werewolf branch.

A surprising number of those people have only 4 fingers on their hands, and one appears to have two hands on the same arm. It must be a hereditary trait. Or not…