I think the ‘are you better off?’ question is a simple, fair and tangible one, and for too many people the answer is ‘no’. And that number grows ever time a mortgage comes up for renewal, a utilities… (View Post)

Tbh I think SKS’s pledges are solid, if vague (and they are election pitches, so that kind of goes with the territory). Cautious, don’t-startle-the-horses stuff, which is what Labour need to be pitch… (View Post)

I cannot stand Jonathan Jones. A real-life Toast Of London caricature, only worse. Whereas someone like Meades I often disagree with, but am entertained by, Jones is a windbag who never grew out bein… (View Post)

Give Malc the art column in the guardian please. (View Post)

Dubai strikes me as someone airdropping the Trafford Centre into the Arabian desert. Everything is ersatz. Agree on Oman, which strikes me as a fascinating place. (View Post)