I'm not doubting the stat, I'm doubting the way it is presented. Even that graph is hard to draw meaningful insights from. It's surely more relevant what proportion of aggregate demand… (View Post)

Ad hominem attacks are always most revealing when, depending on your politics, they can apply equally to the person writing them as the person they're meant to be directed at. (View Post)

Can’t speak for the rest of it, but immigration isn’t the cause of increasing class sizes. Funding not keeping pace with costs is the cause. (View Post)

PB brain, please help, my brain has deserted me… I am on a drop zone in statistically* the sunniest place in Europe and it’s raining so I’m bored. I am trying to find the nuclear apocalypse film that… (View Post)

Apologies! Re-reading your post you’re absolutely right. I read Gardenwalker’s post as ‘why does the Telegraph hate Britain’ and then read your post as defending the sort of Tory who runs stories lik… (View Post)