This is capitalism as religion, I'm afraid. The lockdown provides no measure of viability - some much more long-term viable businesses are vulnerable to it than long-term unsustainable businesse… (View Post)

Huxley was vastly influential beyond just being wide-eyed advocate of hallucinogenics, and deserves to be remembered more. (View Post)

The self-employed are the one group that benefits proportionally less than other groups from the government's action, and would have indeed as mentioned benefitted disproportionately more from t… (View Post)

Inner London, ex-industrial parts of North, some parts of Wales, in these area it seems more problematic. Lower-income areas in general, and where there might be less access to smaller and more expen… (View Post)

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)