But it's also the reason why housing is so expensive. It has massive tax advantages that other assets don't enjoy, including allowances for CGT, IHT and a regressive council tax band system… (View Post)

HYUFD is the kind of person of reads the instructions on oven pizza and gets confused when it's been burnt to a crisp. (It's never 12 minutes. More like 6.) (View Post)

I have conducted a quick review of Facebook and the narrative developing is that we should not be cutting incapacity benefits while we spend billions on asylum seeker hotels. I would guess that a ver… (View Post)

If we're not at the "optimal" number of injuries in relation to cost, QALYs, foregone taxes and various other factors then there is work yet to do. I think the DfT have previously calc… (View Post)

The darkly funny thing is that outfits like the Telegraph have been warning us for decades about the dangers of screen time, video gaming, social media etc etc - and now that there is an increase in … (View Post)