Because we spend so much money on topping up the incomes of people who are already in work. If you boost wages at the bottom, those benefits get tapered away. (View Post)

I think the brutal but necessary action is to freeze hospital spending in nominal terms until it represents the same proportion of health spending as it did 20 years ago. Tighten up QALYs and revert … (View Post)

Not necessarily. Just because there is a big swing between two parties doesn't mean the voters are moving directly between the two. The bigger effect here will be that Reform voters turned up, a… (View Post)

We need more abrasive journalism in this country. "You'd have to be seriously odd to stay up for this one". "This has almost no effect on anything", "It's impossibl… (View Post)

Stop being so ridiculous. The highest income decile fly 5-8x as much as the lowest (and that's just number of trips), and drive 3x as much. The top 1% account for over 20% of all flights. Given … (View Post)