People definitely underestimate the role of driving in this. Fewer fat people in London where more people walk. Plus takeaways like people say - which are pushed very hard via advertising for deliver… (View Post)

Portes is a great economist. I think his piece in the Guardian though is too ready to focus on one positive aspect of Brexit - the increased net migration and changed composition of inflows of people… (View Post)

Or a Stepmummy? (View Post)

His book on UK macro policy in the 80s was really good. I met him at a conference a few years back and told him it was one of the things that inspired me to study economics at Uni. Nice bloke. (View Post)

Far from Brexit being a racist project it turns out that the only time that Vote Leave was telling the truth was when they told minority voters that voting Leave would mean more immigration from the … (View Post)