And, even in the USA, the proceeds of growth are largely captured by a very small proportion of the population. The gap in living standards between the median US worker and the median UK worker is no… (View Post)

Labour would probably be quite comfortably the largest party, on the back of tactical voting from Greens and Lib Dems. Yougov shows a much bigger vote lead for the left wing parties than the other po… (View Post)

I can’t understand why contract management is so bad throughout the public sector. (View Post)

https://acoup.blog/2025/09/12/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivc-rent-and-extraction/ Pretty well any society, prior to 1850 or so, was run on the basis of extracting the majority o… (View Post)

PIRA terrorism did bother me more. I was once on the opposite side of Shaftesbury Avenue, when a bomb went off. Islamists have not achieved much here, for twenty years. (View Post)