The reason we are often given is that we shouldn’t do so because it will increase UK debt under Treasury accounting rules. Which begs the question about whom that debt is owed to, why it should still… (View Post)

The UK has fewer geopolitical options than it did before 2016, when it could briefly hope to act as a Chinese bridge into Europe alongside its existing role as a US one. If one believes in liberal de… (View Post)

British respect for “the rules” is its superpower. Also it’s Achilles heel. Nobody else plays by the rules as the British understand them. This was true within the EU, when Britain loved to gold plat… (View Post)

I don’t think it is. It’s a the single best thing the government can do to ameliorate child poverty, which has been growing steeply (even as ever higher numbers of pensioners weigh up how many cruise… (View Post)

Luckyguy is sectionable-adjacent. (View Post)