Apologies for some of the slightly garbled postings today, although I stand by the main conceptual points. I occasionally get dyslexic-type issues when extremely tired ever since childhood, and so th… (View Post)

Point taken on the German reunification issue, which was not included in the original stats page, and I ofcourse should have subtracted for to begin with. However, looking up, there's something … (View Post)

That's true, but it's also easy to blame every kind of failure of free-market fundamentalism on immgration. That's just another kind of taboo. (View Post)

Indeed. This does tend to remind everyone of both the Thatcherite and New Labour culpability for what happened in 2008.. Much of the rest of Europe looks on in bafflement. Even in countries where qui… (View Post)

You're right that Truss is probably the main cause, but it's also interesting that it seems to have also got another step worse since 2016. I think what's happened is that you have ide… (View Post)