The IMF don't have a clue about the real world. If you have full employment and a million vacancies then you're not going to stifle wage inflation with tax rises. Instead workers will deman… (View Post)

Suggestion: Covid has affected Putin in a similar way to those people who have been afraid to leave their homes for two years. Isolation, paranoia, bitterness with the outside world. (View Post)

I imagine there's a few PBers who read AH. Saw a very good comment from Stodge there recently - suggesting that the reason the 1918 Spanish flu hit the young far worse than the oldies was that t… (View Post)

Trident is the nuclear missile that Harrods would sell. (View Post)

One thing which continually surprises me is how little money it takes to buy UK politicians and political parties. Compare with the huge amounts of political donations in the USA. (View Post)