The article I just posted suggests that Treasury deliberately throttles med student intake because more doctors might mean they deliver more healthcare which in turn needs paying for. (View Post)

Have you heard of the fallacy of composition? You seem to struggle to tell the difference between the EU institutions, individual EU commissioners and parliamentarians, and the various nation states. (View Post)

Ganesh is a superb stylist, but I fear he is tending to the over-ripe. If he doesn’t watch out he will go full Tyler Brûlé and end up a risible self-pastiche. (View Post)

I love the idea that an announcement from a poster that he will vote Labour is enough to “shock” someone on here. I thought we were supposed to be au courant with the polling. The only people still v… (View Post)

I’m not totally sure, but I think Britain is a kind of outlier in its almost total lack of an active industrial policy. (NZ is similar). Picking winners was a disaster of course, but it’s clear after… (View Post)