When was Paul Staines last relevant? 2009? Before journos discovered Twitter? When attacking the government, and calling the PM "bonkers", no longer suited the paymasters under a Tory gover… (View Post)

Answer: because short-term volatility is ... volatile, while the well-known factors that predict economic growth over the long term will even out in the end. The most important of those factors being… (View Post)

Yes we're all talking about it, but what I'm talking about is that it looks like Sunak's lost his marbles. (View Post)

Take the Tories off the Barbie, they're cooked. (View Post)

We did basically get "levelling up" - real pay growth for workers in scarce manual-type roles. It turns out everyone else hates it, and that includes a lot of Tory voters. (View Post)