So many people have their own version of this, it’s astonishing. And yet surveys show that something like 5/6 pensioners believe that the under 65s just need to stop eating avocado. (View Post)

Precisely this. Look, I grew up in the 80s and 90s when New Zealand was in the very avant-garde of monetarism, privatisation and deregulation. I know all the reasons it happened, what it was reacting… (View Post)

The baby is dead. The bath water is poisonous. (View Post)

There are different left-isms, not all collectivist. Regardless, what is clear is that shrinking the state and abandoning large parts of the economy to laissez-faire capitalism (which in turn has oft… (View Post)

North East devolution has long been hampered by petty and self-defeating trans-Tyne rivalries. The new solution is “fine”, I suppose, although it effectively re-creates a region rather than a metro a… (View Post)