Arguably the Eastern European countries are motivated by strategic expectations rather than just historical experience. This would go some way to explain East Germany: Whatever about parts of Poland … (View Post)

It was also the view of almost every Western politician back in... January. (View Post)

It is just about screaming the sneering supremacy of the old over the young, backed by the rage against mortality of the biggest age cohort ever. (View Post)

"Class" in the alphabet soup sense (C2DE etc) is a red herring in the 21st century. The professions with medium-term growth are nursing and teaching and social care, not so much architectur… (View Post)

Mostly these "Red Wall" seats are not deprived areas but rather have either improved their service economies or commuter populations since the Thatcher era, or are areas with historical pat… (View Post)