Globalisation is like "Free Trade", neither new nor of universal benefit. It's perfectly possible to be of benefit to the USA in aggregate GDP, but bad for Pennsylvanian steelworks, go… (View Post)

Neither do I. The number of visas granted has plummeted. Hence the financial crisis in universities and anaemic growth, so I think that net immigration in the first year of Labour will have dropped p… (View Post)

I hope you appreciate my new avatar. It's a silent character who appears on screen for only 7 seconds, but expresses what I feel. (View Post)

The polls weren't entirely wrong, indeed they got the size of the majority pretty accurately. The Labour vote turned out where it needed to, hence gaining Truss' seat, but didn't turn … (View Post)

It's mostly volume and the beer is generally good. If you stick to the simple pub grub stuff it's edible. Not that I have been in one recently. (View Post)