This is an interesting graph of who pays in to the state coffers and who takes out: Currently 13.6% of our population is over 70 (about 9 500 000) projected to be about 20% in 2040. The current numbe… (View Post)

Scrap it entirely. Revising should be done in Commons committees and MPs held responsible if they write laws poorly, not rely on the Lords to make a silk purse from a sows ear. (View Post)

It's like downgrading Newsnight to a round table discussion of talking heads. Soon real journalism will only be in the history books, but we will be drowning in commentary. (View Post)

With the retrospectoscope all three of the above graphs showed toss ups as foregone conclusions, with straws in the wind indicating the true result. The hard part is detecting those straws amongst th… (View Post)

Surely the header shows that punters don't know what we are talking about? (View Post)