Means-testing always sounds like an easy answer, but it creates bad incentives in the system. In this case it would reduce the incentive for those in the middle two quartiles to save for their own re… (View Post)

Also, the main problem for pensioner poverty in the future will be the increasing number of poorer pensioners still reliant on renting in the expensive private sector. The most effective thing a gove… (View Post)

The Commons has to be free to regulate itself without the interference of party politics. It was very wrong of Boris Johnson to impose a whip in similar circumstances and it is very bad to see that p… (View Post)

I'm sure Russian trolls have been playing the extremes of both sides of the pensions debate. Encouraging and deepening division is what they do. That doesn't mean there isn't an issue … (View Post)

My voters welfare good, your voters welfare bad. Sigh. (View Post)