Almost impossible to imagine in the UK because of the very small homes Brits are forced into. (View Post)

I actually didn’t know this. There’s a kind of conspiracy of obfuscation around migration figures. You always have to dig into multiple data sets to figure out what’s actually going on. Neither right… (View Post)

Students are interesting, because we desperately need the export income, and - should they choose to stay - they are the very smartest kind of migrant. But I wonder at the effect on university incent… (View Post)

It is “hilarious” that laissez-faire Britons hold up the US and Singapore as two exemplary models. Singapore is essentially a planned economy, albeit a highly entrepreneurial entrepôt. The US subsidi… (View Post)

It is simply unsustainable to grow pensions beyond the rate of actual productivity growth. Pensions should be tagged to that, so that pensioners have some connection with the reality of where their m… (View Post)