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)

Isn't there a risk that the media make the election look like a choice between Labour and Farage, if the Tories are quiet and hide? (View Post)