Damnit. *Their

Indeed, I wonder if you can quantify in cash terms the value of "Public services run by people who feel there work is valued" as an investment?

Is it too much to hope they know what they are doing?

100% recommended keeping a list of the books you've read! - after reading an article about Art Garfunkel recording everything he'd read since the early sixties, I now have a list of everything I've read since 2008. It's fascinating (and very personal) seeing how my interests have shifted!

Huge if true.

There is definitely a certain genre of middle class, centrist *sensible* man (over represented in the pundit class) that flatters hemselves that anti-trans activism is "defending women". The women they were originally defending being the OG TERFs.

Each sentence feels like it should end with a "(derogatory)"

Is this "wins" in the sense of popular vote, or wins in the sense of electoral college too. I'm very confident on the first one, and moderately confident on the second, but worry I'm wishcasting.

I've not read the full piece yet, but given the comments so far I will definitely be reading with half my mind on the collapse of Labour in Scotland post 2014 (and the more recent apparent partial recovery)

Screamager still an absolute stone-cold banger.