2016 is dodgy data because the referendum played havoc with the currency markets in 2016. Taking a more recent benchmark (eg 2019/2022) or a more distant one, shows that the UK has outgrown the EU pe… (View Post)

Odd to choose Poland as a comparator, a former Soviet nation being given vast subsidies. Subsidies we would have been paying for, not receiving, if we were members. World Bank GDP per capita data, Eu… (View Post)

And yet we have grown faster per capita than the EU, both in recent years and over the longer term. Takes a bizarre kind of hubris to think we would have grown even faster than them, if only we had r… (View Post)

Did you hear about the guy who cooled himself to absolute zero? He's 0K now. (View Post)

The following week our global travel correspondent discovers a hidden Palace in Westminster with, get this, a big CLOCK TOWER. (View Post)