I suspect Putin quite likes being alive. Using nuclear weapons creates a very serious, unpredictable risk of that not continuing to be the case. The threats to him would be so numerous as to be wholl… (View Post)

Property is too big a tax base to make the preserve of councils. We should abolish council tax, abolish stamp duty and add an annual tax on the property value (rolled forward in a transparent way usi… (View Post)

Okay so to be clear, no evidence just historical anecdote. Evidence would be a contemporary study comparing upward mobility with religious adherence, preferably across countries. Otherwise you'r… (View Post)

Yes people's expectations of the length of retirement are unrealistic. Better if we could encourage more part time working for older people to phase them out of the workforce. Personally I'… (View Post)

The government is 10+ points behind in the polls, the country is about to experience the biggest drop in real incomes in most people's memory, we will probably end up in recession with lots of j… (View Post)