This is wishful thinking. Populism is resurgent across the West right now & Farage knows how to ride that train. The voters gave the Conservatives a fair shake & were disappointed, so they tu… (View Post)

Re Boris: I think it was Max Hastings that said that the more you got to know Boris, the less you liked him. (With the implication that Johnson was /very/ good at making that positive first impressio… (View Post)

“NIMBYs of the world unite - you have nothing to lose but your economic growth.” ? (View Post)

Doing the latter means implementing an annual % property tax. Would be far, far better economically, but the politics of it makes it really hard to do. You’re going to be putting up taxes on poor old… (View Post)

If you cannot criticise Hamas then that is in fact a problem. Those that don’t accept that the freedoms offered to them in this country apply to everyone equally need to experience the full power of … (View Post)