Let's say Starmer's recovery bond is for a fixed-term of up to 5 years. The government can already borrow for a 5-year term with an interest rate of 0.14% pa (using today's pricing) vi… (View Post)

Once the adult population is vaccinated, I expect Covid will be statistical noise within the country's mortality and morbidity statistics, even with slightly different variants. In that scenario… (View Post)

I have to say, as someone who was very strong Remain supporter who hopes we can strengthen our ties with the EU in the future from the current status, the EU couldn't have thought of a better wa… (View Post)

Very impressed by the ramp-up in the vaccination programme so far. If we keep this up we'll be amongst the first in the world to be able to return to normal, albeit we shouldn't loosen rest… (View Post)

Looking at the detail of the ONS data (published here ), the estimate is that c.3.5% of people in London have Covid as at the end of December. That's remarkably high, but not high enough to get … (View Post)