It's pretty tight at the moment, nearly 50GW of demand and wind was down at only 4GW yesterday evening. In the future, we're going to end up in a position where we need loads of gas capacit… (View Post)

The Conservatives were taxing people's homes to the tune of £45 billion a year, often on a grossly unfair basis. (Council tax) (View Post)

If you take a step back, it does seem mad that we tax capital gains, rather than just having a general capital tax. We also need to remove all these protections for land and property which distort ho… (View Post)

There is plenty of room to tax more. Labour has boosted tax revenue as a proportion of GDP to 38.5%, compared with 36.5% under Tory plans. That compares with 46% in France, 44% in Norway, 42% in Denm… (View Post)

I'd feel for the King trying to pick between those two possible coalitions. (View Post)