@CaloNord - The EU could be a superpower if it were united. But the only things currently uniting it are geography and history. Each individual country has relative wealth and power, but they all pul… (View Post)

The last polls I saw suggested about a third of Scottish voters are undecided, so it could swing either way. Unfortunately, because the whole thing is pretty unprecedented both sides don't really hav… (View Post)

Now they're all obsessed with terrorism. Which is pretty ironic in a number of countries. In the UK we've had far fewer terror attacks since 11th September 2001 than we had in the decade before it. B… (View Post)

All in all I think I'd prefer an NG politician to a LG one. There have been a few who have managed it well. Gandhi is the obvious one. He often gets thought of as a fairly spiritual figure, but he wa… (View Post)

@Heindrich - I was given a book last Christmas called "On Politics" by Alan Ryan. He seems to think similarly to this Princeton study, terming most Western democracies "Elected Aristoc… (View Post)