The levelling up of much of what we used to call the third world isn't the issue, and is great news as Tim says. The issue is the growing inequality and narrowing ownership of the assets within … (View Post)

It appears that Reform has recently tightened its vetting of candidates and presumably is paying more attention to who stood for them in seats where they did well. Morris walked out accusing Farage o… (View Post)

As I have said before, a benign dictatorship is probably the optimal form of government, save for the two fatal drawbacks that as time passes most such tend to become less and less benign, and when t… (View Post)

It's more fundamental than that. The free market economic liberalism we have been 'enjoying' since the tail end of the Cold War has led to growing inequality, but appears impossible fo… (View Post)

Not really. With a broad brush, Labour has done pretty much what the Tories would have done, had they been re-elected, with the difference being a little more focus and a somewhat more realistic appr… (View Post)