Germany has higher wages and higher skills because of higher levels of public investment and less short-termism across key areas of its economy. There's no sign of the current government's … (View Post)

As mentioned previously, Labour needs a message sufficiently broad to encompass aspiration and genuine social idealism. Blairism and Corbynism were never equal to the task in any durable way, but it … (View Post)

Wilson's genius was of its time, but I also think part of it is probably transferable and applicable to our time. He managed to make material-financial, educational and social-moral aspiration, … (View Post)

What a great story. (View Post)

I like Stephen Fry and his humanity but have mixed views on his thoughts on this. He veers dangerously close at times to accepting generic definitions of political correctness without discrimination.… (View Post)