Here is Peter Here is Jane Here is Pat The Dog (View Post)

Every tier in society looks down most aggressively on the tier just a tiny bit below it. “An arriviste, certainly, who can't shoot straight and in Jopling's damning phrase 'bought all his own furnitu… (View Post)

I got an Ooni a few years ago and it’s sitting in a cupboard after only being used a handful of times. The issue was the faff of the wood pellets: lighting them, topping them up etc. meant I needed 2… (View Post)

I’d place it around 2003/4 for the European economy. That’s when thanks to a Chinese construction boom, the fallout from 9/11 including Iraq, and the US real estate bubble, the era of cheap global co… (View Post)

Absolutely. And given our primary economic challenges come from having not enough babies, too much saving and too little spending, having a national narrative that we should buckle up for hard times … (View Post)