Keynes would have said that if you have high unemployment then that is wasted development potential just sitting around doing nothing when it could be doing something constructive. In his view (this … (View Post)

Banks make money from loans. Everything else is marketing. It is /slightly/ weird that we base the functionality of the rest of our economic system on the marketing budget of the banking sector. (View Post)

No criticism of the Cass Review intended - it’s description of GIDS as unfit for purpose (any purpose...) seems accurate & it’s proposals for what should replace it entirely reasonable. It’s poss… (View Post)

Statisica says there were 1336 Albanian prisoners in the UK prison population in 2022: https://www.statista.com/statistics/872023/leading-nationalities-of-foreign-prisoners-in-england-and-wales/ Ther… (View Post)

I suspect it’s something to do with the position the Conservative party finds itself electorally: having thoroughly compromised their ability to campaign on the values they usually rely one, the only… (View Post)