At a broad estimate, if we keep doing as well as we are now then we should be able to get phase one done by Easter, which would mean the last of those people would've reached their three weeks p… (View Post)

I don't know what crude and arbitrary formula they've deployed, but it looks wrong. I very much doubt that any of Norway, Canada, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand will take until the … (View Post)

That's uncharitable. Johnson is a populist with a fraught relationship with the truth and a dislike for having to make difficult decisions. But by all accounts he's also an instinctive libe… (View Post)

Irrelevant. Government borrowing in the Eurozone is still a matter for the nation states, and in any event Germany at least is a substantially larger and richer state than the United Kingdom. (View Post)

Well, there's always been this lazy assumption in some quarters that Trump and Johnson are birds of a feather, but whilst they're both flawed they're clearly also different personaliti… (View Post)