We're a fortunate country in an improving world

Occasionally, perhaps more often than we do, it is good to look on the bright side of things. Our country is in an indisputably better state now than it was last Christmas, or indeed the Christmas before that . . . or indeed the three Christmases before that. The period of the bailout is now officially over, and while, as we have argued here on many occasions, the task of fixing the national ...