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)

But they largely make up for that by a vastly better-funded public and common realm - which is supported by taxes. (View Post)