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)

I think the general public is broadly in favour of "stopping small boat crossings", and not as fussed as us lefties about how deterrence is achieved short of actually shooting at them. But … (View Post)

No, I'm a leftist, and I agree with that. Clearly we can't have everyone, and we shouldn't refuse everyone. A good starting point is not to spend time making judgments, good or bad, ab… (View Post)