No robot will ever be able to fill a dishwasher to my exacting standards. I find emptying and filling the dishwasher quite a satisfying activity, a kind of ritual purification and worshiping of the h… (View Post)

All forecasts are wrong but not all forecasts are honest. The "independence" of the OBR is in many ways a fiction (unlike with the US CBO we have no formal separation of powers to give its … (View Post)

Euch, lawyers are the worst. (View Post)

No, the OBR is the only good idea that Osborne ever had. It is a check on the Treasury's tendency towards expedient forecasts and is trusted by financial markets, hence ensuring we pay less to i… (View Post)

Maybe Sunak and some other Tory MPs could take a one way flight themselves. They keep telling us how great Rwanda is, and I'm not sure anyone will miss them. (View Post)