The other big problem is that a party which depends for most of its funding and support on often lazy, entitled and incompetent public sector workers is particularly badly suited to making them impro… (View Post)

This is a good, balanced and non-technical video about why trillions in foreign aid haven't boosted development overall and have sometimes been completely counter-productive. https://www.youtube… (View Post)

Pointlessly shredding what's left of Gaza is beyond any justification and entirely counter-productive. Going after the nuclear weapons programme of a mad, fanatical government that has funded mo… (View Post)

I'm not sure I agree with that. There were plenty of liars in public life before Boris - Blair/Campbell's dishonesty was notorious. Also, Boris lied or was wrong about trivia, like whether … (View Post)

Remember, financial markets are like hysterical children (or some posters on this site) in that they always overreact to any given item of news. See Dornbusch's Nobel Prize winning 1976 paper fo… (View Post)