It will of course cause decades of depression for them and for the economy as a whole, but they will be on benefits so prime voting fodder for Labour, the party of welfare scroungers. Same with the f… (View Post)

As usual the news is mostly doom and gloom so here's a story of survival against ridiculous odds I heard yesterday. In 1972 a Yugoslav Airlines flight flight was bombed by Croat nationalists. Th… (View Post)

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)