The reality is that, by international standards, the US political class is quite clean (as is ours, BTW). Ironically, Donald "drain the swamp" Trump is the most notable exception, a grifter… (View Post)

Wage growth reflective of underlying productivity growth is great. Wage growth that isn't simply drives up inflation, which is not great. Unfortunately the BOE has allowed too much of the latter… (View Post)

"the devil makes work for idle hands" is one of those old sayings that has a lot of truth in it. A society that doesn't have meaningful work for most of its population is soon going to… (View Post)

"grown up party" 😂 (View Post)

First, like Labour. (View Post)