No it's simply the wrong approach. America has plenty of decent jobs - of course not everybody has one, but enough exist that they can't by themselves explain how 80 million people will probably vote… (View Post)

That must be why it got 19 million viewers in the UK and 400 million worldwide. At least 5% of the world's population and 30% of the UK's are clearly obsessive royal fanciers. (View Post)

And if the manager of the shopping centre wants to lure back tenants, perhaps the rent she is charging is too high, although somehow that never seems to occur to people like her. (View Post)

Loan covenants can be renegotiated and indeed should be if they defy commercial reality. Most retail is a dinosaur technology and exactly the kind of inefficient use of land, labour and capital that … (View Post)

So we should have just ignored the largest vote for anything in British history and the results of three general elections, to build a wildly overpriced rail line? (View Post)