Politically, it is looking less and less likely that Sunak will achieve his target of halving inflation this year. And there will be another high triple lock increase to approve while working familie… (View Post)

0.7% month-on-month inflation. Really quite bad numbers. Expect short-end gilt yields to sell off (increase) today. Wonder if it brings a 0.5% rate hike tomorrow onto the table, rather than just 0.25… (View Post)

Can people please stop adding 20-30 runs plus extra time onto our first innings total and pretend that everything that followed after would be identical? It would change the course of every subsequen… (View Post)

Who says no parent wants it? Demand for adoption is extremely high. And by, say, 28 weeks the survival chances for the baby are over 90%. By 32 weeks it is extremely likely to be a perfectly healthy … (View Post)

You can induce earlier than 37 weeks (or give birth via Caesarean), so your cut off is just as arbitrary. The baby's prospects are less good than if you wait, but better than if you kill them. A… (View Post)