Recent content by JamesT

I suspect he refers to Angela Raynor, the deputy leader.

The average person in the UK would have been in favour of the death penalty. It was only in 2015 that polls came up with the majority being against capital punishment - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32061822

Rather than just looking at the papers, would https://pressgazette.co.uk/uk-news-market-share/ be a more useful article? The BBC is very much the 800-lb gorilla in terms of how people in the UK get their news. 60% of adults get news from BBC1 every week. Whereas the most popular newspaper (the...

Are you just taking the average of the changes in prices to produce those overall numbers? That's going to give you a completely useless number unless you actually just buy one of each thing. For example, one of the items in the list is 1000l of kerosene delivered. I suggest that if you do...

There's also the question of what's causing the inflation. Raising interest rates dampens demand as it becomes more expensive for companies to borrow to invest. Which is fine when the inflation is being driven by excessive demand. However much of the price rises at the moment appear to be coming...

The baskets of goods and services are weighted, though it will still be skewed to whatever the ‘average’ person buys. https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/consumerpriceindicesabriefguide/2017 has a good introduction. In 2017 when that article was written, food was...

Especially as the MP in question voted for a bill that said exactly that - https://order-order.com/2022/01/19/new-christian-wakeford-co-sponsored-bill-mandating-by-election-for-mp-defectors/

As that person is usually the leader of the largest party, then it's reasonably likely that they'll be able to get legislation through. We can see in presidential systems like the US where the directly elected leader isn't of the same party that controls the legislature that they're often...

The thing with remain and reform is whether meaningful reform was possible. Cameron tried negotiating before the referendum and didn't get much out of the EU with the leverage that we might leave and take our contributions with us. Would there have been likely anything further if the referendum...

That's not content going straight to other platforms. All the BBC Three content is available for no extra charge to licence fee payers on iPlayer. Given the demographic BBC Three is aimed at I'd be surprised if many of their shows were being watched more live through broadcast compared to catchup.

What content are you thinking of that the BBC is making that's going straight to other platforms? I'm not aware of such a thing happening.

The problem Hunt will have is his past career as Health Secretary. It will be easy to attack him for the state of the NHS and it’s preparedness for the pandemic. Then there’s the fact that he lost the last leadership election, has anyone come back and been successful at their second attempt for...

Firing Michael Masi would probably do the trick :)

In particular moments these things can come unstuck. The question is whether over the long term more people benefit from the normal low prices than suffer from these blips.

Unemployment isn’t a huge problem in the UK, our rate is around 5% whereas the EU average is more like 8%. Hence all the complaints around Brexit where employers said they were unable to find staff. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports the UK was the 6th...