I didn't realise how weak the fiscal rules now were - only to have debt falling as a percentage of GDP in five years. So it's within Hunt's rules to splurge on tax cuts now, while debt… (View Post)

Isn't the basis of their quashing Colorado's removal of Trump from the ballot that the States can't do that? Who is going to stop Trump running for a third term in 2028? SCOTUS seems t… (View Post)

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)