If you define relative poverty as some fraction of median income then it needn't be ineradicable as long as the fraction is not too close to 1. This doesn't mean that we should necessarily seek to er… (View Post)

When we interrogate our idea of poverty it is always a relative concept at its core, because poverty is ultimately about being excluded from the normal patterns of consumption and participation in ou… (View Post)

It's not about keeping up with Jones's. The point is that what we might consider an absolute poverty line now would be very different to the absolute poverty line 50 years ago, because we have differ… (View Post)

I don't drink coffee so I'm alright. Luckily taxing tea has been off the agenda since the loss of the 13 colonies. (View Post)

The problem isn't what Farage did and said and thought as a teenager. The problem is that he can't own up to it and apologise. He gives the impression that he doesn't think he was in the wrong. The i… (View Post)