My take on this is, unsurprisingly, different to yours. My thinking is that as the standard of living increases (as it continues to do, just) we should indeed devote an ever-increasing proportion on … (View Post)

Just extend NIC to unearned income then. That is definitely 'not an increase in taxes on working people' (View Post)

Yep, at my grammar school everyone was streamed after the first year into four streams: top stream became 2A (Arts) then 2S (Science), 2T (Technical) and 2X (the rest). Only the Arts stream studied L… (View Post)

This will play well in the run-up to Thanksgiving: Thousands of flights cancelled or delayed in US as air traffic control hit by government shutdown https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c20ez8y0dv1t (View Post)

Damn you and your pesky facts! (View Post)