Sorry to bang this drum again but demographics drive only a very small proportion of our healthcare spending increases. It's more than doubled in real terms since 2000 - no amount of ageing can … (View Post)

...what? Impossible to beat Holy Island, the Tweed, Durham Cathedral. (View Post)

Wtf does that mean? Do you support a 95% unfunded tax cut with gilts at 5%? (View Post)

I think the overall impact on revenues would be an additional £1.5 billion per year (massive tablespoon of salt given the source). Not nothing, but not the kind of cash that can protect us from this … (View Post)

Can the world economy survive 9 months without Hormuz? I’d have thought you’d get a brutal depression if this lasts that long. (View Post)