While we're on the topic of religion, the aspect that irritates me most in this country is the fact that publicly funded schools are still allowed to discriminate admissions based on a child… (View Post)

Technically correct, but misleading in colloquial usage, where agnostic in the UK tends to mean you are on the fence whether the religion you were brought up with is real or not. For example, where t… (View Post)

We should be increasing the base rate to 30% or so and scrapping Employee's National Insurance. (View Post)

An escalating tax on empty or infrequently used commercial and residential properties more generally would be a good way to improve the efficient allocation of scarce resources. Empty properties have… (View Post)

Training places strikes me as a win-win. Back in my day (15 years' ago now) it was incredibly hard to get a place to study medicine at University - much more so than it was to study maths, physi… (View Post)