One of the petty reasons I have for disliking Farage is that, like Trump, everything is part of a conspiracy against him. It's really tiresome. Reform have not been "stitched up" by th… (View Post)

Also, Gordon Brown was the Chancellor, the Labour Chancellor, who put up income tax on the poor to fund income tax cuts for everyone else. I could easily see Starmer and Reeves engaging in that sort … (View Post)

Most grammatical rules in English are on death row. English is a language that gets grammatical rules and takes them round the back to be shot. You can say that they still exist, but English grammar … (View Post)

In 2016-7 the higher personal allowance for people born before 1938 was done away with (mainly because the standard personal allowance was increased beyond it, I think). Everyone is on the same now (… (View Post)

I think at every election there are more polling firms. More polling firms, with more ways of torturing a dubiously-acquired sample to show a passing resemblance to reality, and so we have an ever wi… (View Post)