In the first quarter of 2023, real business investment in the UK remained over 1% below its peak in third quarter 2016. (View Post)

That is not really the story. Although there is definitely a strain of libertarian resistance to Covid-era policy in NZ opinion, the main objection to Jacinda was that she was just not competent at g… (View Post)

It’s still essentially the “fuck business” government, even if Sunak himself is an unlikely figurehead of such. (View Post)

Brexit is dead. We just haven’t figured out how to dispose of the body yet. For the moment, we have to put up with this grotesque “Weekend at Bernie’s” style politics where people pretend it makes an… (View Post)

National/Act are not quite a a cert in NZ yet. It’s possible NZFirst (NZ’s answer to UKIP) might return to parliament, they are polling just shy of the 5% threshold. If they do, then National/Act are… (View Post)