"In the long run we all lose reelection", as Keynes put it. (View Post)

Also, the private sector DB->DC switchover has been a quiet shifting of exposure to risk (investment and length-of-life) from big organisations who should be well able to cope with it and amortize… (View Post)

I will give you 'charismatic' and 'election-winning' for sure, but they don't make you a good PM -- they just make you good at getting the job of PM. He may have been also &#… (View Post)

I think there are two difficulties with that analogy -- the size of the "club", and the reach and importance of the activities under its control. As a club gets bigger, it gets more importa… (View Post)

Grant Shapps' answer to this one (about a different programme, maybe the covid-themed one) was that he didn't watch programmes about situations/people/organizations he'd been closely i… (View Post)