People of earlier generations went out and spent frivolously too - cinema, pub, records, etc (and a lot of those sorts of things were arguably cheaper in the past too). The big difference, as data in… (View Post)

I think that's unduly lenient on Theresa May. She chose to put party over country in her response to Brexit which turned a divisive referendum campaign into a constitutional crisis and paved the… (View Post)

Which raises the question: why did the Tories (2010-2024) shaft the young, rather than make little capitalists out of them? (View Post)

I can't get my head around this sort of thing. I know Ireland is nominally neutral, but it likes to say it is strongly supportive of Ukraine, and yet it's helping supply the Russian defence… (View Post)

I think some Democrats have introduced resolutions and the Republicans have voted them down. So Congress has had its say, but seems to be stuck on party lines at the moment. It does say least mean th… (View Post)