Brown gets criticised because he changed UK banking regulation with the creation of the FSA (a huge but almost entirely useless organisation) which let so many UK banks get into a mess in the first p… (View Post)

Listening to Starmer this morning I thought "this sounds like wishful nonsense". He seemed to imply that GB Energy would sell energy below market prices, or alternately subsidise the purcha… (View Post)

Only about 1 in 2,000 houses sold in England 2022 was in that range. So he could easily be in the top 0.01%. No such transactions occured in Scotland or Wales in 2022 to give you an idea of how rare … (View Post)

There is a lot of truth in that. Probably because most people think they are normal and average, rather than exceptional, and because the people they mix with and live amongst look like them, so &quo… (View Post)

Journalists routintely talk about a middle-class that by any normal definition is usually the upper quintile. This has been the case for as long as I can recall. The very people who journalists think… (View Post)