In more senses than one - as an economic 'policy' in terms of the size of Gross Domestic Product and, even more importantly, in terms of the growing legions of the unemployed - young people and younger adults included. This is a really tragic waste. The mystery to me is that anyone could ever have thought that swinging the axe in a recession could possibly work - or that they could continue to think that it still will.
But this, I'm afraid, is what the Government appears to think - and the official opposition, such as it is, is not distancing itself sufficiently from the policies of draconian cuts which may, in part, account for its indifferent showing in the opinion polls to date.
Technical note: time travel is not possible either, but the government is doing its best to send us all back to the 1930s anyway.
But I guess we're all getting tired of the unsurprising slew of bad news on the economic front - so what's good recently? Well, the good news is that (a) the solar system has not been sucked into a super-massive black hole and (b) the Higgs boson might or might not have been found and (c) Tracey Emin is now a professor of drawing.
Er, on reflection maybe there should be just two items on this list...
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