Remember all the ridicule Diane Abbot received for her arithmetic errors over police funding? It's so much worse than that. (View Post)

Trump ordered some financial institutions to buy mortgage bonds in order to force down mortgage rates. You could imagine something along those lines to force US banks to buy US Treasury bonds. Then e… (View Post)

#competition Ed Davey as PM! Good to see someone make a different prediction but that's a bold one! Ed Davey is 80/1 to be next PM - What's your scenario as to how he gets there? (View Post)

It took £350m a week for people to vote for Brexit. Do you really think they'll settle for a one-off $100k? (View Post)

This is the sort of thing that was no doubt negotiated between previous US Presidents and Denmark, and it's the sort of thing that you could negotiate with a rational US President. Trump is not … (View Post)