That is bad, but on the other hand if the American and British embrace of neo-Victorian attitudes to welfare since the 1980s, which has been both economically and socially damaging, is ended, and inc… (View Post)

Indeed. Not only may the economy may be fully functioning again in a couple of years, it may be functioning on a better long-term basis, with incomes policies widely accepted. (View Post)

However, the rising stars of the Conservatives at the time, more influential on their evolving outlook, weren't figures like Lilley but Daniel Hannan, later populist Brexiter and supposed scourg… (View Post)

This is nothing to do with 2008. The 2008 approach to politics and economics is dead. (View Post)

Brown was chiefly responsible in terms of extending policies of the 1980's, such as financial deregulation, into an unsustainable context. Only with this crisis may part of the 1980's conse… (View Post)