He'll need a much more optimistic tone for the Presidential election eventually I think, if he beats Trump. American voters like the more genial candidate, the one with an optimistic vision. Ang… (View Post)

In fairness to us, screwing up planning isn't just a British phenomenon. I'm in California now, and the restrictions on development around San Francisco are just as bad as ours. But of cour… (View Post)

The obsession with blaming Brexit or whether we avoid recession is incredibly damaging, though. We ARE underperforming economically, but not mostly, if at all, because we implementing the people'… (View Post)

I think we should stop issuing visas to Hong Kongers and give them full freedom of movement instead, with citizenship after a year of residence, not five years. There's no suggestion that they a… (View Post)

All political philosophies have their difficulties when you try and put them into practice, but there is an unresolved, and probably unresolvable, tension, or even contradiction, in market economics … (View Post)