If people really want a vote in leadership elections all they have to do is join a political party. But clearly most people are happy to wait until the next general election. (View Post)

Yes, as things turned out, the clowns in that fiasco were the Remainers. May's deal gave them as much as they were realistically going to get, but they doubled down and ended up with nothing. Bo… (View Post)

... only for Russia to attack them again next year and maybe again the year after that. Putin is a classic serial killer - he doesn't stop until he's stopped. (View Post)

In other words they made up 36 numbers for each country, rather than just one. I often meet this thought in the economic and statistical modelling I do professionally - for some reason, making up doz… (View Post)

Unfortunately a significant real terms pay cut is inevitable. We have just had a very big negative shock to the terms of trade which has reduced productivity which means a significant real terms pay … (View Post)