The public will judge every government strategy a failure. Because what the public wants is a multitude of contradictory, mutually exclusive things at zero cost to themselves and which also results i… (View Post)

Trump is too erratic, too unreliable, too likely to veer between extremes for plans to be used. Which means planning for a wide range of possibilities is required. (View Post)

Rayner comes across as someone who thinks it is perfectly normal for people to be net recipients of money from the state for all of their lives. (View Post)

To be fair the economic improvement between 1993 and 1997 was despite the government's initial strategy. Major had been willing to trash the economy in order to remain in his beloved ERM. (View Post)

Its a little known fact but Calais was not the last English possession in France. Rather it was Dunkirk which was English territory between the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 and its sale to France i… (View Post)