UK Poorer Than Mississippi, No Supply Issues In The Housing Market?, Internal Migration In China
This week, the lads have latched onto a report in the Financial Times which claims to show that outside of London, Britain is often poorer than the poorest US state - and equally, that it has fallen way behind its European peers like Germany. Our duo argue the toss: is this just bad accounting? Or is there something more fundamental here, to do with how a different kind of bad accounting has allowed the UK to obscure its long-term decline for far too long?
On a related point, Philip Pilkington has been dodging brickbats all week, after he told UnHerd readers that the problem of housing…
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