Bland Toryism is all the bond markets will permit. (View Post)

Anyone spot what's missing on that graph ? The 1980-1981 recession. Thatcher and Howe kept control of the public finances. Now that led to the surge of unemployment to three million but also allowed … (View Post)

Though this is certainly good environmental news: Atlantic salmon have been confirmed as breeding in the River Don for the first time in more than two centuries. The Don Catchment Rivers Trust (DCRT)… (View Post)

Indeed. And ministers will now have to think for themselves and be judged on their own decisions rather than outsourcing the decisions and blame to the EU. (View Post)

Not all low skilled labour is the same though. Care workers (if you consider them low skilled, they're certainly low paid) are filling a genuine requirement. But car washers and food deliverers for l… (View Post)