The cut-and-thrust of incisive political debate.

On the Today program this morning, people were burbling on about the upcoming change to licencing law. People who should know better. They should all have been shot. There was not one reference - well, there never is any reference, so presumably all the London media establishment should be shot - to the fact that this is probably the best-trialled legal change Britain's ever had. There's been a thirty-year pilot project involving a tenth of the British population, and it has totally failed to lead to the sort of disaster that the prophets of doom claim is inevitable. But does anyone choose to bring up this somewhat-relevant fact?

No, of course not. That would be sensible. Why would anyone want to introduce actual evidence into lawmaking?

Art, innit?

Her Noise sounds quite interesting. The last bit, mainly.