Blair and Boris were both PMs in a time of plenty. Starmer is PM in a time of restraint - except for himself and his friends, who continue to enjoy plenty paid for by the rest of us. (View Post)

Yes it’s like 50% income tax, mostly a psychological crossing of a threshold - but which absolutely changes behaviours. (View Post)

I don’t see what the OBR does, other than being an enforcer of Treasury Orthodoxy on the Chancellor. It was always clear that Osborne introduced it only to trip up the next Labour government politica… (View Post)

It not fatal if they change their behaviours. Which at a basic level means SKS not being seen in a box at Arsenal, nor at the FA Cup Final or the Osais concerts next summer. (View Post)

How much of that private-sector growth can be accounted for by minimum wage increases? (View Post)