Pettifogging. Pettifrogging is presumably the very small braid detail in regimental jackets. (View Post)

Councils have too little power, or perhaps too little of the power we want (placemaking), and too much of the power we don’t want (pettifogging). The result is a lowest common denominator disaster zo… (View Post)

What “measure of reality” has it been measured against and found wanting? It’s a counterfactual, based on a basket of analogous economies. You can minge about whether the basket/doppelgänger concept … (View Post)

My original post was carefully hedged. I had some researchers had estimated the impact at 5.5% while others thought it smaller or larger. Cue the mass baying of cranks. As said researcher points out,… (View Post)

The argument that global growth has slowed and so Brexit is a distraction is of course another form of copium. Just because everyone around you also feels unwell doesn’t make it useful to cut off you… (View Post)