The thing is, increased real terms wages for a given section of the workforce - largely that one which had been most disadvantaged by the previous 20 years - was a genuine benefit of Brexit, albeit o… (View Post)

Bulgaria, IIRC. There is a fun chapter on lottery numbers in a book called Humble Pi, by, I think, Matt Parker. My favourite anecdote is that there are tens of thousands who buy lottery tickets with … (View Post)

I'm not arguing that inflation isn't bad - but the selective badness of high inflation isn't as bad as the universal badness of wages rising more slowly than prices. It seems odd to ch… (View Post)

In my defence, I'm a quality-only frontloader - frontloading would be done in company, and in someone's house or garden with a better quality beer (I also rather like Broadside). And I migh… (View Post)

That's incredible. I remember drinking in a pub in Nottinghamshire 20-odd years ago with my then girlfriend and some others - as she often did, she ordered a glass of white wine, which was serve… (View Post)