Of course politicians duck the fiscal issues. The Great British Public have made it very clear that they won't vote for them if they don't. After all, the key pledge of the 2016 campaign was to duck … (View Post)
The nuanced description goes something like this, I reckon. The public have fairly solidly decided that Brexit has been a failure. (61-13 is pretty solid, is it not?) We're not yet ready to embrace a… (View Post)
I'd argue that the EU has learned a lesson from the last decade. Unfortunately for us, that lesson is that leaving is not a good idea. Few people in Europe, even on the nationalist right, are looking… (View Post)
It would be wrong to assume that the crisis of trust is limited to politicians. Most segments distrust journalists and big business and we are split on judges, with more socially conservative segment… (View Post)
Once more, with feeling: It's not a debt in the standard sense that individuals are all expected to pay it back. It's a picky distinction, but it matters. And if we are headed for a robot apocalypse … (View Post)