The mingeing on here about the cost of getting a replacement laptop or a replacement car is precisely the attitude that prevails in Treasury and the country at large. It’s why Britain increasingly “c… (View Post)

The election is actually quite close, due to the recent rise of the ukippy NZFirst (one of the “opposition” parties you mention”). They have taken votes from the economically liberal Act Party. Previ… (View Post)

My wife’s 10 yo MacBook has just died. I’ve told her to get a second hand one. I’m fed up with posters pretending that all voters are going to have to fork out £40k come 2030. The number of people I … (View Post)

It is not obvious to me that China is in ascent anymore. (View Post)

As far as I can tell from reading history books, British hegemony didn’t fully and finally collapse until WW2. The US were clearly economically stronger after WW1, but not necessarily considered mili… (View Post)