Charles II gets an unfairly bad press. England made huge strides towards becoming a world power in his reign, helped by methods of government funding developed during the Civil War and Commonwealth. … (View Post)

NI on pensions would do the job. And as we apply NI differentially to pensions, I suspect it would be fairly easy to tax them differently. Can't see it happening though. Many pensioners, even those w… (View Post)

I don't think it's grim. As vaccines continue to be rolled out fewer and fewer people will be susceptible. And those people will be those at least risk. If we have reduced the risk to that from other… (View Post)

The ONS reckons 87% of people have abtobodies. There's only 9 million to go. It has to burn itself out sooner rather than later. (View Post)

46:42 is not "most people' And we won't know if leaving was the right thing to do for 2-3 years. Certainly not economically, and possibly not politically. (View Post)