Maths is great. And he himself made it to the top…via maths. But the idea that we should insist on it until 18 is batshit. (View Post)

It effectively has been abolished, which is one modest contribution to Britain’s stagnation “conundrum”. It turns out that, like democracy, strong and well-funded local government is the crappest sys… (View Post)

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)