Henry Ford once said, “if we’d have asked the public what they wanted, they’d have said ‘a faster horse.’” In spite of this warning, British Chancellor (effectively Vice President) Sajid Javid has decided to launch what he is calling a competition, based on the idea that Britain’s exit from the EU will allow the slashing…

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Editor’s Note: This week, we begin a new foray into parody. Luke Haines, our UK correspondent and editor, will give us today the first in a series of short, comic pieces that will run over the next few issues. He describes his effort with: “ A while back I wrote something in which I compared…

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There’s some good news for people in the UK, amongst the ongoing depression of Brexit, freak winter weather and the inherent glumness that comes with being British. You may remember that about ten years ago there was what economists call a “complete financial disaster of Biblical proportions.” It was in all the papers, which a…

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