I agree. Having worked for governments in Northern Ireland and Jersey, on the one had, and London and Brussels on the other, you certainly notice the difference between the level of scrutiny. In the … (View Post)

You're right, I was being much too polite to call our decline under Wilson managed. The disastrous withdrawal from East of Suez which has left the Gulf a power vacuum ever since, the mishandling of N… (View Post)

I'll bet Putin can hardly believe his luck at the clown show that is American diplomacy. Biden and Obama may have been weak and complacent when it came to Russia and much else but they managed to pre… (View Post)

That's bollocks. Here is an ECB paper analysing OECD panel data since 1965. If you can't be bothered to read the whole thing, here is the abstract: "This paper investigates the effects of change… (View Post)

Yes, once Gordon Brown was allowed to transfer massive resources from the productive private sector to the low productivity state sector the economy was always going to struggle. Before 2007 it was i… (View Post)