Relative poverty and absolute poverty numbers map to actual numbers under official definitions. The proportion of children living in absolute poverty has increased in recent years in part because of … (View Post)

Anyone who thinks welfare in the UK is linked to relative measures of prosperity has little idea of how a large part of society lives. Only pensioners get that consideration. Welfare is issued on the… (View Post)

Sounds like my kind of place! Inveraray is a lovely town in a beautiful part of Scotland. (View Post)

A choice between an economically illiterate fantasy land and an economically illiterate fantasy land with an undertow of racism and despotism. (View Post)

I challenge that. I don't think EEA is the panacea supporters make it out to be. Brexit has turned out the way I expected it to because people behaved in the way I expected them to. So naturally… (View Post)