Student debt and unaffordable housing have crippled the Conservatives among the young southern middle classes. Not that nimby LibDems are offering any improvement. The young people who have benefitte… (View Post)

The UK's trade deficit is pretty much equivalent to the UK's tourism deficit. With the trade balance being positive in 2020 and almost so in 2021 when travel restrictions were in force. htt… (View Post)

Learning Russian is too hard. Easier to make 'people like them' bear the extra costs. (View Post)

Terms such as right or left are relative to where the mid-point is. When the big issue becomes to be immigration then the 'centre-right' are usually to the left of the mid-point thereby all… (View Post)

Now to start reversing those defence cuts in a more dangerous world would mean: Higher taxes on the rich and property than otherwise and/or lower spending on the oldies and poor than otherwise. (View Post)