The catch is that productivity improvements are lumpy- some jobs can become ten or a hundred times more productive, others will struggle to eke out a few percent. Number wrangling in finance is way m… (View Post)

But do we? Assuming those jobs still need to be done, the consequence of that will be British workers being pushed down the value chain. That is not how most countries do it, and I'm pretty sure… (View Post)

The bigger problem is that, as voters, we often want contradictory things. See the way that we have spent decades voting for lower taxes without cutting government spending on us. Both of those are p… (View Post)

To be fair, it's hard to think of an example of a mainstream right party that has successfully fended off a populist right rival. And now, with Reform twice as popular as the Conservatives, why … (View Post)

Is it an attack on Lammy? It could just as easily be day one of a "Lammy for PM" campaign by the currant bun. After all, the first editor of Murdoch's Sun was Larry Lamb, and nothing i… (View Post)