Whichever government won the last election, taxes were going up. The last Conservative budget required tax rises in this session in order to get the OBR to sign off on it. (View Post)

Much of this argument strikes me as very similar to the arguments around home schooling. Can a student learn the content of a university degree in a self directed fashion? Absolutely. The problem is … (View Post)

A privilege for which the (private sector owned) journals charge an absolute fortune. (View Post)

Trumpism has driven significant chunk of the Republican party completely insane. (View Post)

If all of these rumours turn out to be true - the rest of HS2 postponed indefinitely, Thames crossing killed etc etc - then we’re back to exactly the same broken logic that Osbourne used to justify a… (View Post)