Because the taxpayer knows that supporting children is an investment in the future of the country? Because a society that doesn't nurture its children - all of its children - is committing suici… (View Post)

There's a difference between being interesting and being entertaining. Boris Johnson has never been interesting. He's just a standard issue posh boy with a side order of sad clown. He'… (View Post)

I've got it at 5.6%. That is more than half what it was in Nov 2022 so weak Rishi's pledge looks like a fail to me too. (View Post)

I mentioned it simply because without it the UK's economic performance in terms of growth, unemployment and inflation would have looked even better under the last Labour government - remarkably … (View Post)

The Blair and Brown governments didn't get everything right but despite facing the worst global financial crisis since WW2 they presided over lower and more stable inflation than we've seen… (View Post)