Nominative determinism ratings for cabinet out of 10: Sunak 10 (is someone's son), Braverman 0 (is neither), Cleverly 7, Hunt no comment. (View Post)

ONS: "Median household disposable income in the UK was £31,400 in financial year ending (FYE) 2021, which covered the first year of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic". (View Post)

Working Germans are chucking their savings on investment products like private pensions. Working Singaporeans chuck their savings on compulsory savings accounts. It's not clear that this is a pr… (View Post)

UK median disposable income is £31k. The chart says £15.5k. A heroic amount of adjustment is happening to cut incomes by half, and you have to trust that the Resolution Foundation is being equally ri… (View Post)

This is effectively saying that the median UK household is worse off relative to other European countries due to higher house prices, which is surely not right, on the contrary, most households gain … (View Post)