I'm confident that if Reeves had cancelled her trip to China yesterday in response to the hullabaloo, the relevant markets would have found that terribly reassuring and more confident about the … (View Post)

Yes. And anyway, why is it that it's always rich people who need incentivising? If middle and lower income people earn more, they're much more likely to actually spend their extra money tha… (View Post)

On the Truss/Kwarteng budget, it's rarely mentioned now but in my view the most egregious part of it was cutting the top rate of tax from 45% to 40%. This meant the highest earners would gain an… (View Post)

I can't see Reeves defecting to the AfD. (View Post)

Well done Sadiq Khan! Well, you can't blame him for rising knife crime (which isn't true, actually) without giving him credit for a falling murder rate. (View Post)