Overly simple or lying solutions to complex issues long predate the internet. The whole socialist movement owes its existence to that, as do organised religion and plenty of other inane ideologies. A… (View Post)

Get with the narrative. When your side wins by a percent or two, it's a landslide. When the other lot wins, it's a narrow victory without a real mandate. See, e.g., the BBC's gushing reporting of Oba… (View Post)

Also the crew that gave us stagflation and took us to our economic nadir with the IMF bailout and the Winter of Discontent, at least Margaret Thatcher put in years of hard graft and temporarily rever… (View Post)

It didn't START in America - economic optimism has been crashing since Labour started talking down the economy and then kicked the private sector in the balls with their disastrous budget and employm… (View Post)

My surmise would be that the number of housing starts fell as the economy slowed from the roaring economic boom of 2021-2 and as the pent up approvals from the pandemic ran out. Whatever, it's a dism… (View Post)