On topic, sadly dismal governments can last for a very long time if they dial up the repression and just don't care. Cuba has been "about to collapse" since 1991 and North Korea looks … (View Post)

On topic, when I look through social media, including some of the shriller online forums, it is easy to conclude that this country is composed either of vicious racists, homophobes and incel mysogeni… (View Post)

Doubt it. Stealing and wasting hard working people's money will always come first for them. (View Post)

I think you're both part right. Government is so intrusive and all-pervasive and modern society is so complicated that the former is inevitably involved in a huge number of issues that the Great… (View Post)

He also kept the confidence of the financial markets through austerity in the public sector. But his (and Osborne's) programme of austerity had two big problems. They applied it indiscriminately… (View Post)