I don't think any other major European economy has seen manufacturing output drop by double digit percentages, but if you have the figures I'm willing to be corrected. (View Post)

It sort of Apes it. (View Post)

I would point out that Russia went through much worse than that in the Civil War - Nove put manufacturing decline down as a staggering 87% from 1914 to 1921 - but it came through. With difficulty, bu… (View Post)

It is remarkable to think that just two players who played in Australia’s last defeat against England in Oz - Smith and Khawaja - are still playing Tests, and only two more (Siddle and Anderson) stil… (View Post)

That would be a very bad outcome for English cricket as a whole then. (View Post)