Statutory maternity pay isn’t a fraction of the issue, compared to housing costs that now make it impossible to live on one salary in many parts of the country. (View Post)

Work done per hour worked, the usual definition of productivity, would likely get slightly better. However, work done per pound spent, and total work done overall, both likely get worse. (View Post)

Because it still requires people to manage the shutdown, and transfer the services and people that are still required into other departments. Better to bring in an outsider with business management e… (View Post)

Opposing something that appears to be deliberately targeted at your core voters by your political opponents, on the other hand, is something you should pick up and run hard. (View Post)

The bigger question is why are the government wasting so much political capital on raising such small amounts of money? It comes across as ideological rather than properly thought through, with plent… (View Post)