From the abstract of the underlying article, First, politicians are on average signicantly smarter and better leaders than the population they represent... A broad implication of these facts is that … (View Post)

Be fair, there's a Bar Chart and error bars and everything. (View Post)

Didn't Osborne forsee that no good would come of the 2016 referendum? Though building a majority in 2015 by defeating their coalition partners was the sort of victory that the ghost of King Pyrrhus m… (View Post)

Possible ways money is being lost: 1 Outright fraud, of the sort that did seem to happen at the peak of COVID; both the PPE panic and the business support schemes. 2 Government business systems could… (View Post)

But Republicans are still chirpier about the economy than at any point during the Biden years. OK, some of that is human nature. (See the posters here talking Britain down because Reeves is in charge… (View Post)