Novels: 350 pages or less Films: 2 hrs or less Pop songs: 3 minutes or less Anything more than and you'd better have a damned good reason.

True, but it would be difficult *not* to be more fragile than the numbers appear. The numbers are *very* good for labour. They have a *>150* seat majority.

Indeed. People are (broadly) having the number of children they want to have. In previous eras children were more often than not a byproduct of something else people really wanted to do rather than a goal in themselves.

Ah. Very frustrating!

Is there any kind of equivalent to the BPC that regulates its members - publishing full data etc?

Is there a good reason why polling in the us is so erratic? Coming out of the UK GE where there was obviously a bit of a spread between companies/methodologies, but all showing the same general picture, it seems very inconsistent.

The total population of Georgia is about 10 million. The UK hand counts every vote in our general elections (>15m actual votes) and we get the result the next day. Why would it take months?

As a chemist the answer is pretty much scale.

Like their first time at karaoke - for years they'd been singing along to the music of government in their bedrooms, then when they got up on stage and realised they can't remember the melody and no one else is going to sing it for them.

Is this over and above the productivity benefits of "A system not facing constant, massive, and chaotic churn of staff"? or is that priced in there?