When discussing our eye watering 95% debt to GDP ratio, it’s worth also reminding everyone of the USA’s 125% debt to GDP ratio, which is about to soar further towards an estimated 140% by 2030 follow… (View Post)

I think very little is Gaza, or Polanski. How many voters even know who he is? It feels like mainly the left wing disappointment vote now Labour is actually in government. (View Post)

Sources please. Evidence please. Perhaps take a comparative look at the countries topping the global power rankings in the 19th century, or the GDP scores in the 20th, or the human development index … (View Post)

That said, the good burghers of Brockley are on the whole champion NIMBYs too, as my local case study shows. I don’t blame them - they’re engaging (usually) in rational economic behaviour if they see… (View Post)

I really don’t understand the overlooked thing in dense urban settings. I’m already overlooked in the garden by all my neighbours, and overlooked at the front by the houses opposite: we’re on a terra… (View Post)