As a provincial science teacher, I suspect that confusion between capital and revenue costs is at the the root of a lot of our problems as a state. (View Post)

You can see why newspaper and magazine columnists are so antsy. (Before the Long Vac started, my college ran a PD session on using AI to make lesson resources. The resulting products looked nice, but… (View Post)

Pensions and debt interest, mostly. In the 80s, we had a very favourable dependency ratio, and any idiot could have made the fiscal sums work. Now we don't, and not even a genius could. (Plus, m… (View Post)

The historical precedents for strong leaders/near-dictators/actual dictators being deposed because their bodies and minds have turned to mush aren't great. It may look like a very unstable equil… (View Post)

The catch is that to process migrants is to acknowledge their existence. Or that, once they are on British soil, there are limits to what the British state can do. Plenty of voters don't really … (View Post)