Ireland is the specific example in this case, but it applies across Europe in various other ways. Surges in sales of chips to the Central Asian republics that find their way across the border into Ru… (View Post)

I think it's fair to say that capitalism has become better at parting people from their money. And consumer credit laws have been relaxed, making it easier for people to borrow money they don�… (View Post)

That's a great read. Would be great to have a lot of that data somewhere updated regularly. I thought this section was politically significant: "Even beyond the raw and cynical electoral po… (View Post)

She kept deciding what Brexit was going to be entirely to herself, rather than reaching out to try and build a national consensus. This was partly an attempt to use immigration/voting leave as a wedg… (View Post)

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)