Fun question. Personally I've been happy all my life, so anything since the 60s would be fine. Culturally I think the country has become much more open since the turn of the century (genuinely a… (View Post)

FPT IFS notices that the budget has actually made the £100,000 tax trap that @Casino and other have mentioned much worse: The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the childcare proposals announced today… (View Post)

IFS notices that the budget has actually made the £100,000 tax trap that Casino and other have mentioned much worse: The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the childcare proposals announced today will… (View Post)

Yes, the effective 62% tax rate in the £100K-£125K bracket is just odd - not left or right wing, but weird, since it could be trivially fixed with a more rational sliding rate. It's influencing … (View Post)

Yes, that's a really perceptive article. At a trivially anecdotal level, I quite like Sunak and Hunt (my own MP). Am I going to vote for them? Of course not. (View Post)