Well up to a point. The lot of yer average Chinese person would appear to have imoroved considerably in the last 40 years, but a) I am sceptical it has done so by more than the counterfactual in whic… (View Post)

I’m aware that I’m guilty of taking the view which is most comforting to hold, but I’m deeply sceptical of the genius of China. They’ve built a metric shit-tonne of stuff over the past 20 years; it w… (View Post)

Yes but the 70s were the nadir of beer. That's when and why CAMRA was formed. When I first started drinking in the late 80s/early 90s I remember Boddington's was 3.8%, and that was at the bottom end … (View Post)

Now Labour have arrived at favouring tge WASPI women, they really have got to the "we'll just spaff public money on any old chancers" stage. Depressing it took less than 18 months. They jus… (View Post)

But - and I speak as a member of such a scheme - almost all of those are miles better than those available in the private sector. (View Post)