Centralisation predated Thatcher, but that was indeed when the rot really set in. (View Post)

I hadn't got MD down as a self hating Yorkshireman, but there you go, apparently. (View Post)

The implication of it's being a "pathetic little region". (View Post)

We talk about prospect theory pretty well all the time on PB, without either knowing that's what it's called, or who pioneered it. It predates not a few PBers birth. (View Post)

It's a pattern established in US politics ever since Reagan. The GOP borrows massively, and waits until the Democrats are back in power before demanding fiscal rectitude. (View Post)