The 2m unemployed is the tip of the iceberg - there are around 10m working age adults on benefits, including about 4.5m on health-related benefits, up by 2m since the pandemic. So basically the 34m w… (View Post)

Charisma matters much more than policy in presidential elections, especially in America, whose population is even less interested in the nuts and bolts of government and its associated tradeoffs than… (View Post)

Yes the Resolution Foundation numbers are completely wrong. Your numbers are right according to the ONS. Don't forget that the Resolution Foundation are the most left-wing of the mainstream thin… (View Post)

Except for the first sentence, none of that (unsourced and unsupported) is true. Income inequality has not significantly increased over the past generation - the Gini coefficient has hovered around 0… (View Post)

"The general rule is if a party leader is more liked than their party then the party will poll better than the polls " Is that actually true? Or is it just speculation? Sources needed. The … (View Post)