No. Even if a country suffers discrimination against its own industries, it is irrational for it to retaliate. The best strategy for us is to buy their subsidised and protected goods, and use the che… (View Post)

No it doesn't. Incidentally I'm not entirely opposed to all intervention and subsidies. But I am opposed to almost all of it for economic reasons. If there are non-economic reasons to subsi… (View Post)

There are about half a dozen fallacies in that post. For a start, selection bias. China has had plenty of failures in subsidising its industries. In the West, we are only conscious of the successful … (View Post)

Nope, fact based analysis. See here amongst many other studies. https://cspicenter.org/reports/academicfreedom/ (View Post)

I think that's exactly right. I'd add that without a compelling strategy in Scotland, Labour is likely to struggle even more as the small towns and suburbs in the North and Midlands move ev… (View Post)