It's perverse, because many Green policies, like rent controls and a minimum wage of £15/hour, would devastate the prospects of young adults in particular. The former would deprive them of housi… (View Post)

No, as he's using a different authority to impose them - not the International Emergency Economic Powers Act but Section 301 of the Trade Act 1974. So I imagine it'll be another year as the… (View Post)

I don't think Mandelson was particularly competent in his relatively brief times in government before he was forced to resign - certainly no strokes of genius spring to mind, and quite a few mis… (View Post)

It depends. If the Americans, uncharacteristically for them, have a coherent plan for Iran that might get a better government in there, then there might be a case for helping them. If they're ju… (View Post)

Yet again they have failed to plan for the most predictable consequences of their actions. Anyone who has attended a first year undergraduate economics course knows that if you increase the price of … (View Post)