Trouble is that what Mrs Thatcher actually did was to stumble across two magic money trees – North Sea Oil and privatisation. To be fair, she helped create a third with the big bang unleashing the Ci… (View Post)

It does feel wrong but why? Why not ask why there should be VAT on Gregg's pasties when customers have already paid income tax on their wages? (Osborne himself favoured 5 Guys burgers iirc.) The… (View Post)

Many PBers are far more financially sophisticated than most. I can easily believe ignorance around the precise workings of IHT, and the need to pay it before probate is a new one on me, tbh. Look at … (View Post)

Ladbrokes settles on the podium positions. I expect all bookmakers are the same. (Edited to fix typo.) (View Post)

Briefly an officer, but long enough to serve in three war zones, and later a fourth when, after the Gallipoli disaster, Churchill resigned from the government and served in the trenches in France for… (View Post)