Lol. In five years time all three of my kids will be 18+. What has Brexit done for them except for limiting their opportunities and shrinking their earning potential? (View Post)

The defining question from the Vietnam era was "how do you ask someone to be the last one to die for a mistake?" Similarly, how long will younger generations tolerate being poorer than they… (View Post)

If you look at the cyclically adjusted primary fiscal balance - which is generally viewed as the best measure of the structural fiscal stance - the adjustment anticipated by the OBR is very similar t… (View Post)

Minimum wage increases redistribute income from the middle of the wage distribution to the bottom. That is a valid political choice. When I was young I worked in a restaurant for £1.50 an hour. Not g… (View Post)

The way the Coalition tried to balance the books by targeting spending cuts in poorer areas of the north of England also led to Brexit, the biggest policy error of the postwar period which will hobbl… (View Post)