Since British education is not perceptibly worse than international peers, it's hard to take seriously the idea that everybody involved in running it for the last century has been stupid and incompet… (View Post)

Cyclefree's article reads like "some risk exists; therefore no". See for example the end, where the existence of any problems is a reason to resist any de-regulation. (To add, the assumptio… (View Post)

Also, the U.S. has two advantages. You start with extra political goodwill versus overseas rivals. And you have many more tiers of 10- and 100-times millionaires to provide funding. Without them, fun… (View Post)

It's not a profession or even a trade. At best it is a description. "housing market sizing" sounds like classic economist jobbing. (View Post)

Plenty of betting opportunities out there. My kneejerk response is that incapacity to deal with problems has rarely stopped other governments going the full term. (View Post)