Then it wouldn't raise much but would destroy the already damaged private rental market, hitting the young and poor the most. There's no easy way to raise the already record tax burden - if there wer… (View Post)

Because either a wealth tax includes housing and it's politically disastrous or it doesn't and raises pennies at the cost of huge damage to the economy as the wealthy move their business, shares, etc… (View Post)

Maybe partly true. Maybe not. Nobody is really sure where the markets' tolerance will run out. America, Italy and Japan have been able to spend like drunken sailors on shore leave, whereas Truss was … (View Post)

... and also because standing up to Putin and stopping the Russian armies at the Dnieper at great personal and national risk is the best contribution to world peace anyone's made in decades ... (View Post)

In a government that includes Angela Rayner, David Lammy, Ed Miliband, Yvette Cooper, Louise Haigh and others it takes a lot to be the weakest link. But, yes, Reeves may well take that dismal crown. … (View Post)