It's been a PB truism for ages that taxes are too high on employment income and too low on asset income, and that it needs rebalancing. Surely we should be delighted that Keir Starmer has joined… (View Post)

That's not true. The world has made a lot of progress already. We've avoided several tenths of a degree of warming that would have happened - to date - if we hadn't acted. The story sh… (View Post)

I won't lie to you. It won't be great. It would be a lot better if we had done so. But it doesn't stop getting worse the higher the temperatures go. (View Post)

Britain still spends a fair wodge on the International Aid budget. It's not hard to envisage a rebrand of that from Aid to Reparations, with no extra money being spent. The difference might be t… (View Post)

Fuxsake. On the phone to an Irish insurance company and my mind goes blank, I can't remember the phonetic alphabet, so in my very English accent I use: "Victory. Europe." to spell out … (View Post)