One of the “interesting” effects of interest rate hikes is that mortgages are now only paid by a subset of the population - maybe a third. A third - typically retired - own outright, and a third rent… (View Post)

My hatred of Nazism is ultimately not even ideological. It’s fear and repulsion. I don’t go into it for the same reason I won’t read news articles about murdered/abused children. (View Post)

Is this a dark joke? (View Post)

Ukraine has sanctioned Alexander Lebedev, father of Baron Siberia, for his links to Russia. (View Post)

That wasn’t a lie, it was a prediction. A prediction perhaps exaggerated under orders of George Osborne. It would have come true, too, had the Bank of England not been on stand-by. We need a more sop… (View Post)