There's a massive risk that, now that the public sector is involved, they'll find themselves tapped up to plug the shortfall when costs escalate - with the threat of it not being completed … (View Post)

Exactly so. If we want to raise money from the population more equally then the population has to have the means to pay tax more equally. This is one of the biggest failures of New Labour. They shoul… (View Post)

Another Russian oil refinery burning today after a Ukrainian strike. Second in two days. It looks like whatever reason there was for a recent pause on these strikes has now disappeared. (View Post)

Generally speaking Britain's/England's female monarchs have been better regarded than the blokes - Victoria, Elizabeth's I & II - but for Prime Ministers I wouldn't say it has… (View Post)

I thought her comeback on Doyle - "it was on the front page of the Sunday Times" - was pretty good, but her questions were literally, "isn't he ashamed?" when normally PMQs o… (View Post)