Actually it's a rather confused article that mixes up causes and effects and jumps between quite different economic concepts very easily. Just a few points of many more I could make while I fini… (View Post)

Of course people have forgotten, if they ever knew, just how bad the big nationalised industries actually were - when British Airways was known as Bloody Awful, when it took a year to get a new phone… (View Post)

It largely depends on the humidity. 85F in dry heat can be pleasant, while 85F with 95% humidity is torture. But it's something nobody ever seems to talk about. (View Post)

The US was never a theocracy, 250 years ago or ever. And theocracy in colonial America was mostly confined to the Massachusetts Bay and New Haven colonies in the 17th century, and then it was never c… (View Post)

The problem for the UK is not that things are so disastrous, or even that they are so mediocre, it's that people won't accept that improving them in the long term needs sacrifices in the sh… (View Post)