Well yes but the government isn't making long-term decisions on the basis of these short-term spikes. The Bank of England has rightly recognised the short-term pressures. The government has been… (View Post)

No. Poland is a major net recipient of cash so has no reason to quit. The EU26 would need to unanimously expel Poland - and Hungary would veto it. Similarly Poland would veto moves to expel Hungary. (View Post)

Understanding how the market works isn't crass stupidity. It is understanding economics. People whinging that the price of timber has gone up without bothering to look into why it has gone up: t… (View Post)

Anyone who thinks that treating women as second class citizens to be segregated from society is wrong but has no objection to the burqa because its related to a religion is no better whatsoever than … (View Post)

And the absence of testing probably explains all of the discrepancy. Since case numbers have been fairly consistent for a while its reasonable to look at the ratio of deaths to cases. In Germany its … (View Post)