A reader writes:
Er, you are aware, aren’t you, that the Buttonwood map displays *total debt,* public and private? And that the accompanying bar graphs clearly show that the primary reason Britain shows up so poorly is the huge debt of its bloated financial sector? I don’t think that can be attributable to the “Blair-Brown splurge.” Indeed, Britain’s government debt ranks ninth of the fourteen in percent of GDP.
The Dish 