That is the number of people who voted for Fred Thompson in the Florida primary, in spite of the slightly inconvenient facts that (i) he had pulled out of the race a week beforehand, and (ii) he is widely considered to have been one of the least compelling candidates in modern times. I am dazzled: there are 22,419 people out there who know deep down, come what may, this is the man to lead their nation. Obviously there are vast disparities of scale here, but that is roughly the number of people who vote directly for David Cameron and/or Gordon Brown at the average general election. I want to meet these people, or at least a representative sample. They believe.
Let’s make climate a culture war!
If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad? No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...
