Well the answer for inflation was to have more hawks on the MPC. Because we've had more than a year of wondering why the Bank of England has been so slow and timid when raising rates. Just think… (View Post)

Exactly. The whole point of what McCullum and Stokes are doing is to make Test cricket more entertaining by playing for a result, not settling for draws. That means changing the distribution of outco… (View Post)

It did but it expanded hugely in the Labour years. Even though the NAO was regularly pointing out what poor value it was. (View Post)

Don't forget the love of using PFI. Another great gift to the country from Brown. (View Post)

So apart from catastrophically bad financial regulation, an unchecked housing boom and bust, and a huge amount of poor value PFI to make UK government debt look better Gordon Brown was a pretty good … (View Post)