I wouldn't use GDP in a foreign currency to compare GDP growth differences, for the reasons you describe, namely the volatility in FX rates. Also it doesn't really measure what we are tryin… (View Post)

I love Boring Postcards. Never has a book been less accurately titled. It's actually a powerful and moving testament to postwar optimism, the idea that ordinary lives were worth celebrating, and… (View Post)

That comes dangerously close to victim blaming in my view. If only brown people didn't exist, there wouldn't be any racism. The Brexit campaign made it acceptable to blame all our ills on &… (View Post)

I'm not a fan of that kind of ad hominem. I am okay with my judgement. The two big mistakes the UK has made in recent decades, Iraq and Brexit, I got right. (View Post)

So you agree that the public should be allowed to change its mind? (View Post)