Off topic, I have just spent the last two weeks in Albania, and have just crossed over into Greece. As some appear to appreciate my occasional observations from my travels, I thought I'd note do… (View Post)

She may be, and I'm no-one to speak up for socialists of any description, but fwiw a good friend of mine worked for her as an aide for a year and said she's a genuinely nice and well-meanin… (View Post)

That's not true at all. When I looked last year I found a dozen or so such without much difficulty. See e.g. Minford and Zhu (2024) or Maurice's various publications for thr IEA. (View Post)

Up to a point. The best thing about this site is intelligent, fact-based disagreement that makes you check your own assumptions and arguments, and maybe even modify them. For example, a while back, s… (View Post)

That would be the sane, rational, reasonable thing to do. But senior politicians aren't like you and me - they actually crave these extremely hard, utterly thankless, all-absorbing and not-very-… (View Post)