Of which only council tax (within tight bounds) and road maintenance are actually within the local authority ambit. They could have named schools, social care, bin collections, planning, housing, par… (View Post)

Streeting Down, surely? (View Post)

I think that’s exactly the sort of thing that has driven it. No coincidence the big surges came after the financial crisis and Covid. Risk aversion. The Japan story. (View Post)

Except according to the stats we are saving more than ever before, and the biggest saving boom has happened in the 2 decades since the financial crisis, and accelerated this decade. In fact until 200… (View Post)

Let’s keep him on tariffs for a bit, then Hormuz again, so he leaves Ukraine and Greenland alone. (View Post)