I don’t think that’s true. AFAIK, vetting for the military etc is often about ensuring people are honest about past drug use, prostitutes, gambling, sexuality etc so as to avoid blackmail and conflic… (View Post)

Different denominators. First two is entire working age population, unemployment is just labour force (excludes the inactive). I think you need to use them as a set because they each reveal and conce… (View Post)

Employment rate, when Labour got in v now: 74.7 v 75 Inactivity rate: 21.9 v 21 Unemployment: 4.2 v 4.9 Small moments but something interesting going on there. (View Post)

It’s funny how the economic indicators for Labour haven’t been bad at all. Not brilliantly good either, but it wasn’t so long ago that some people on PB were predicting an IMF bailout. In fairness, a… (View Post)

The curious thing about this is how disinterested people are. No chatter in the office, not even in the top 10 most read articles on the BBC. I think it’s mainly because the country has entirely give… (View Post)