This wage suppression happened because of austerity following the great financial crash, which Britain has never truly recovered from. It wasn't done as a policy to compress wage scales to reduc… (View Post)

One of the big lessons of the Blair government was that there wasn't a target or a metric that couldn't be gamed. There's no such thing as a perfect way to measure things. Heisenberg&#… (View Post)

This passage particularly sticks out. “The crazy thing is, a wheelchair service’s mandate is only to make sure you can mobilise indoors, in your home. On a flat smooth surface, I can do that in a man… (View Post)

I think this comes back to the sense of "not taking the piss". The British people will put up with a lot if they think that it's being done honestly and with good intent and people are… (View Post)

Russia started the war with essentially zero national debt, and it's currently able to borrow quite a lot from it's own population. However I think it's also experimenting with issuing… (View Post)