You’ll upset the Berkshire irredentists who are currently planning terror bombings until Oxfordshire surrenders the Vale of White Horse. (View Post)

Martin Wolf in the FT: According to the IMF’s latest data, real gross domestic product per head in the UK rose by a mere 6 per cent between 2008 and 2022. This was the second worst performance in the… (View Post)

Bromley is in Greater London, *and* in Kent. (View Post)

It’s not nonsense. The economy has flatlined, and much of it is conscious policy choice. The record unemployment rates kicked in from the 90s onwards, both Labour and the Tories have left Thatcher’s … (View Post)

Speaking largely anecdotally, I feel like the GDP gap can be explained by cheap energy, economies of scale, and a culture of investment (government, venture capital, entrepreneurialism). Ironically, … (View Post)