Number 1 article on the BBC this morning is about SUVs. Hopefully we'll follow the French and reform VED into something that deters people from buying them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7vdv… (View Post)

RFKs brain worm tried it's luck with Trump but quickly died of starvation. (View Post)

But no one here is suggesting that's the best way to do it. Obviously. Because it doesn't improve the lot of people on low incomes. If you don't like idea of trying to get people out of deprivation t… (View Post)

We have an absolute poverty measure for that, but even then it gets re-calibrated for median incomes occasionally. That's because, ultimately, poverty does need a society level baseline to measure fr… (View Post)

It wouldn't need to cost anything at all. The driver of this is the labour market. As I recall, Denmark and Finland simply do not have the same problem with in-work poverty that we do, and their soci… (View Post)