Johnson might be decent if he hires a competent chief executive figure to actually run government while he handles the PR and occasionally gets involved in things he's worked up about, like Ukraine. … (View Post)

Great. The sooner they are gone the better. 3p off income tax if we don't have to prop it up for starters. Also we can revisit the stupider provisions of the Windsor framework that exist mainly becau… (View Post)

No, the best way is for people to save for their own social care through some form of insurance. Taxes are highly distortionary and damaging to economic growth. Funding social care through private se… (View Post)

That won't happen until the grievances that Hamas feeds off are addressed. Even if Hamas were somehow destroyed, some successor organisation would take its place. Unlike, say, the Ukraine war, which … (View Post)

The idea that we have the slightest clue what's going to happen in four years is completely ridiculous. People who try and predict it are modern bird-gut-readers. (View Post)