On the topic of the day, the only reasons I can see to prefer a pool over the sea are if the sea is a) forbiddingly cold, b) full of bitey or stingy things, or c) discouragingly unclean. None of thos… (View Post)

A quick BOAFP exercise suggests to me that the proposed inheritance tax cut would be likely to be worth to me personally as much as I earn, net, in about 9 years. (I'm not some aristocrat, by th… (View Post)

I don't disagree with any of this. But I'd also add that while stop the boats is a priority for voters, the Conservatives evidently aren't stopping the boats. They've ramped up th… (View Post)

Well at the risk of misunderstanding the question - apologies if so - let's take, for example, the underrepresentation of non-white people in the top echelons of FTSE 250 companies. (I don'… (View Post)

Give people a choice between people who appear to support the 2020 mobs and *someone else*, and it is no particular surprise some of them go with the someone else, even when he is a known arsehole. (View Post)