Provided they're not too dependent on Russian gas... you want to be in Norway, perhaps. And actually France should be relatively well placed. (View Post)

As well as the direct hit on family finances, there's also the effect on public services of something 8% inflation with no corresponding increase in their budgets. Public sector workers are goin… (View Post)

In this case, unusually, the reality is politically more important than the perception. Unfortunately for the government, and for Rishi's political ambitions, the economic reality is that for mo… (View Post)

On the first question, yes, everyone who earn more than £12,570 will benefit by the same monetary amount (except well-off working pensioners like me, who remain bizarrely mollycoddled and don't … (View Post)

But as you have also rightly said, the worst thing a government can do is keep changing the rules. A 'windfall tax' sends entirely the wrong message on that score, especially now. (View Post)