Why did Brexit increase immigration | Post war immigration statistics

Suella Braverman is leading a campaign to reduce immigration, furious that former Home Secretary Suella Braverman permitted a massive increase. Some people think immigration is a good thing, some think it is a bad thing. I am mostly in the good camp. There is a very obvious reason why the UK has immigration. The UK… Read More Why did Brexit increase immigration | Post war immigration statistics

Births of Despair | Abortion, birthrate and authoritarianism

Recently I wrote about the link between authoritarian populist, politics and declining life expectancy. One of the factors I didn’t look at was the impact of banning abortion and the repeal of Roe Vs Wade. Even before the repeal of Roe Vs Wade Republican controlled states, mostly in the South, introduced increasingly draconian laws to… Read More Births of Despair | Abortion, birthrate and authoritarianism

Deaths of Despair | Trump, Brexit, Putin and Dostoyevsky

“The Russian soul is a dark place.” Angus Deaton has a new book out.   Not the disgraced former presenter of Have I Got News for You, but the Nobel prize winning Economist. Deaton was the first person to use the phrase “deaths of despair” to describe the declining life expectancy of non-college educated white… Read More Deaths of Despair | Trump, Brexit, Putin and Dostoyevsky

Labour Party Conference | So that is where all the Tories ideas went

Apologies for no videos of bad dancing or chaos. Sadly Labour were far to well organised for shit like that. Starmer may not have sealed the deal with voters, but he has finally won over his own party. They may not love him, but they are united behind the Labour leader for pragmatic if not… Read More Labour Party Conference | So that is where all the Tories ideas went