Big health issue with vaping IMO is that it appears overall to be a failure as a smoking cessation tool, which was how it was originally sold. Smoking prevalence rates were falling until vaping was i… (View Post)

If so I think that's a signal Burnham wants to make. He's presenting himself as a change from Starmer and Reeves. Not investment advice for Miliband stock however. My main position is no-on… (View Post)

I think Miliband has two things in his favour as Burnham's choice as CoE. First he's best qualified of the front runners for the role. He has significant Treasury experience dating back to … (View Post)

On the one hand Burnham can choose whoever he damned well pleases. On the other he does actually need a safe pair of hands as CoE and Mahmood is not that, in general or economics in particular which … (View Post)

Why on earth would the Lib Dems be upset by Kemi Badenoch making her party unacceptable to otherwise Conservative supporters who will vote for them instead? Leaving aside whether it's a reasonab… (View Post)