UK taxes are very badly loaded on middle class wage earners . Hardly anyone else pays tax. Taxes don’t necessarily need to go “up” they need to go “broad”. Perhaps this distinction is not meaningful,… (View Post)

I just paid a bill for some hallway lights in a flat I have in London. Total bill was something like £150, of which just £3 was for actual electricity, the rest comprised standing charges. What the h… (View Post)

Did they have decent instincts? I haven’t really seen evidence of that. Moreover, Starmer gave Rayner the Housing job when he must surely have known that she had no real clue on how to deliver. (View Post)

5. Starmer’s two deputy leadership potentials both appear to dislike him. One has essentially been plotting to depose him. 6. It remains a mystery why Lammy was moved from the Foreign Office where th… (View Post)

The Greens will continue to do well. Zack is a complete charlatan, of course, but the coinage of political leadership is somewhat debased these days. (View Post)