Ukraine is losing and desperate so launches a nuclear attack on Moscow. Moscow responds by nuking Kyiv and other western cities perhaps. Everyone loses. (View Post)

Under soviet communism there was a saying "Enjoy this year for next year will surely be worse". I think we have reached that stage in the uk. (View Post)

Interesting article in the atlantic. How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe Britain chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over openn… (View Post)

This moves on from what I was saying yesterday. As the economics writer Noah Smith notes, London’s financial prowess has concealed the overall economy’s weakness in innovation and manufacturing. Or, … (View Post)

For ordinary people democracy is a theoretical abstraction. They just want safe streets, jobs and cleanliness. (View Post)