But then that's effectively a rebalancing of tax away from NI back to income tax, which is a reversal of the consensus that had prevailed for many decades, and which has seen PAYE employees taxe… (View Post)

The Liz Truss effect. I'm one of her greatest detractors - what a monumental self-inflicted disaster she created - but she's also achieved one of the biggest and fastest turnarounds in Brit… (View Post)

When you put it like that England really is a sporting Goliath, and yet the self-image is of perennial underachievers. (View Post)

Not enough people want to swallow pain now in return for reward later, but it's precisely what I plan to do if I ever get a mortgage again. (View Post)

The competition from TV should make films shorter. If a story is too long to tell in 100 minutes then it's a story to be told in at least two episodes. Make a short series rather than a single f… (View Post)