#MartinWolf as an article on British productivity in today’s Financial Times. coincidentally, the Irish statistics office published this graph of Irish productivity which is as usual, remarkable

🚨 the new #Venezuela #oil deal, as traditional a piece of #C19th colonialism as one can imagine... Many Venezuelans, delighted #NicolásMaduro is in a #US prison..must have hoped for the overthrow of the dictatorship, not a new colonial master with its hands on their oil. #MartinWolf @ftedit.ft.com