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)

Monbiot makes multiple points there, though ; budgets for monitoring at the EA have been reduced by 55% over the last ten years, prosecutions have gone down by a staggering. 98%. This is because the … (View Post)