I think one of the visible ways in which the economy has changed since the Big Banking Bust is that the middle has fallen out of many consumer markets. The top x% is doing very well, and so there… (View Post)

They've changed Prime Minister after each of the last three elections, the last time twice, and with increasingly large changes of policy. You're seeing what you want to see. (View Post)

The political problem for the country is that the Tories did this without being honest about it, and without making the case to the public about why it should be supported. Instead they trumpeted tax… (View Post)

The Tories may be many things, but an entirely known entity is definitively not one of them. (View Post)

Blair ceded so much of the domestic agenda to Brown that you can make a strong case for Brown's consequentialism. And then he also blocked Blair from trying to join the Euro, and that certainly … (View Post)