I feel like I’m going slightly insane here, but will persevere nonetheless. You stated:He claims that "Small farmers without other assets can use their nil rate band". Except they can't. If… (View Post)

Imagine the screaming from the large landowners. IHT is bad enough: an asset tax! Mon dieu! (View Post)

True: when the media environment is dominated by people who are massively incentivised to maximise eyeballs at all costs then any hope of nuance goes out the window. Which is why you need to get your… (View Post)

As an aside: this simply isn’t true. I completely agree that carbon capture is a complete waste of money at the current time, with far better options available for carbon reduction if that’s the gove… (View Post)

This government really is quite spectacularly bad at the PR side of things. (View Post)