There's a whole array of possible subsidy regimes. It did not have to be a subsidy that affects peoples' decisions whether or not to burn gas at the margin. For example, each gas consumer c… (View Post)

What's the point of governmental nagging? The price should do that without undue urging from our rulers. That's what it does. (View Post)

No-one here apart from me probably listens to R4, but this morning David Goodhart, who coined the "somewheres" and "anywheres" dichotomy, had the Point of View slot after the Sund… (View Post)

Give it a listen. But aiui it's because both parties, who are run by anywheres, now take the concerns and hopes of somewheres explicitly into account in their policy deliberations (i.e. Conserva… (View Post)

Ronnie, who was a u/g student of mine in the mid-1970s, has long been a leading authority on international and monetary economics. The Scottish Greens did well to commission the report from him, unpa… (View Post)