Between 2005 and 2012? That's seriously fast, bordering on reckless. (View Post)

OT, but I hear on the news that Sainsbury's are giving their staff a 5% pay rise following a strong Xmas performance. Baffling. I'm sure I'd read, here and elsewhere, that pay rises wo… (View Post)

Surely farmers will be kicking off agricultural action, rather than industrial action? (View Post)

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)