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)

I thought that was going to read "increasingly ridiculous", and to be fair that's what it should have said. (View Post)

That's true. There's many reasons for so-called "panic" buying, and as I said a few days ago the very idea itself is often illusory and more convenient for authorities than indivi… (View Post)