One trivial oddity was Rachel Reeves pronouncing Madam (Deputy Speaker) the French way. (View Post)

With a bit of luck HMG can spin this leak into a reason for abolishing the OBR. (View Post)

It is the Osborne omnishambles budget all over again (or last year's, come to think of it). Clearing up a number of piddling little anomalies that exercise HM Treasury and almost no-one else. Ev… (View Post)

Paying your mortgage off will free up thousands a year for ISAs; likewise children leaving private schools. The question is (or might be) whether HMG wants that extra spending money invested in Brita… (View Post)

Psychology is the best science! We conducted a quasi-experimental field study on the Milan metro, observing 138 rides. In the control condition, a female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the… (View Post)