Day: 13 May 2011

This has turned out better than expected for the first quarter of 2011. Germany with 1.5% and France with 1% are both doing best of the bigger economies and better than the UK, which manged just 0.5%. Significantly, very significantly in fact, neither entered the global crisis with a property boom nor excessive consumer debt. […]

It may seem an odd moment, just after an election or set of elections, to read trends from opinion polls, but nevertheless that is what this blog now proposes to do. The Lib Dems faced a more calamitous outcome in all the various elections than they could ever have imagined, topped by a landslide against […]