I'm trying to work out when the UK was the richest country in the world, excluding exploitative colonialism. It's a great question. Ultimately most of our power and economic growth stemmed … (View Post)

I thought you quite liked the Danish system of dealing with that problem? I suspect Labour are going for a Danish-lite strategy - lower immigration which deliver consistent real terms wage growth in … (View Post)

The UK is middling to good in a European context. We rightly focus on the negative things that set us apart - like industrial electricity costs - but on most measures we're not bad at all. That … (View Post)

I'm surprised that Sunak didn't give it a go then. (View Post)

Genuinely quite interesting (I haven't bothered to check whether the study is robust). Suggests that the judiciary and juries have opposite biases. I wonder if it's a kind of underdog tende… (View Post)