When is someone going to have an honest and open conversation with voters about the tradeoffs involved in trying to manage an ageing society with record high levels of taxation and ever rising spendi… (View Post)

It was and it wasn't. I watched the whole speech, in the company of my extremely international colleagues, and the underlying message was pretty clear and extremely badly received. Starmer risks doin… (View Post)

I'm not sure. If the government is serious about cutting immigration it is going to have to endure a world of economic and fiscal pain. Unless it's willing to raise the pension age significantly. Eve… (View Post)

Mad dogs and Englishmen. (View Post)

During a recent trip to the US, where I spoke with many members of what I suppose are the global financial elite, I was heartened and proud to see that Britain had furnished the world with a new gold… (View Post)