What I hope Starmer is doing is what the Chamberlain supporters say Chamberlain was doing: playing for time and preparing for the inevitable with that time. But I fear he's only doing one half o… (View Post)

Don't Panic! But is this more Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or Dad's Army? (View Post)

Speculative bubbles leading to oversupply is a standard feature of capitalism. It's made worse in a system like China where the market is manipulated for various reasons. You're kinda sugge… (View Post)

It would imply a monumental amount of food waste, for example, or they would have to be fiddling food-related statistics to match the population statistics. It's much more likely that the one-ch… (View Post)

And how was staff morale broken? Relentlessly cutting pay, something the likes of Andrew Neil would have said was inevitable and desirable and who would have opposed the cabin crew strikes that tried… (View Post)