There was a large affluent, and older, block who voted for Brexit, and many poorer and younger urban voters in places like London and Manchester who voted for remain. (View Post)

Germany imported 1 million immigrants in a year, and still maintains a tradition of far better wages and conditions in many sectors than the UK has had. (View Post)

The Greens, and even the Liberal Democrats, gaining at Labour's expense ; this always seems to happen when he makes a big play of taking on the left, without the corresponding rise so far among … (View Post)

Yes, but this doesn't seem to have translated into the same shortages so far, because many of the drivers are continuously mobile across the EU. This may mean lots of temporary problems in unpre… (View Post)

Yes, indeed. Piketty regards himself, ultimately, as a defender of capitalism, for instance, and his work on the increasing concentration and feudalisation of quite a sizeable proportion of wealth is… (View Post)