Legacy of Empire. Too many of our overseas customers were coerced, rather than wowed by the quality or value of our products, making us lazy and complacent and leaving us horribly exposed once those … (View Post)

That's the trouble with religion. If there was just one of them it'd be a 50/50 call but with so many to choose from the probability of it being true and you picking the right one must be p… (View Post)

UK GDP growth 1960-1979: 80%. UK GDP growth 1980-1999: 52%. UK GDP growth 2000-2019: 43%. (View Post)

Yes and no. Our European peers saw their economies devastated by WW2 far more than ours, so we were growing much more slowly then them in the postwar decades, but how much of that was our underperfor… (View Post)

Whose job is it to check and enforce? If it's local authorities they were gutted by Osborne and have no resources for it. If it's HMRC I don't know. I've always assumed battling t… (View Post)