Individual immigrants can be a burden on the state, as can individual British citizens, to a rather greater extent as it happens. If you want to talk about how to be selective in immigration, I am ha… (View Post)

Well, going back to the point about care workers. I'm not sure the country will get behind: "Your grandmother died covered in her own shit because there weren't any care workers. And t… (View Post)

The lump of labour fallacy is back in fashion. Data doesn't come into it (View Post)

Well yes. But without Brexit we would have less need for the deal. Brexit has clobbered British exporters relative to other G7 countries, who are then hit by the Trump tariffs. It is a necessary deal… (View Post)

The new pope is apparently a centrist, but presumably not a dad? (View Post)