It’s one of those policies that, once enacted, becomes exceedingly difficult and very expensive to abolish. It carries a financial cost (£xbn), a political cost (a large rise in benefits given to a s… (View Post)

Indeed, it’s only a real problem if people’s income characteristics change at the same time, through redundancy or transfer. Banks are much better regulated now than in 1993, it should be easy enough… (View Post)

David Cameron was right, back in 2009. (View Post)

The bigger issue is actually cloned plates, where the criminals spot a car that looks like theirs (same model, year, colour), then gets a dodgy local garage to make up identical plates for their car.… (View Post)

I’m sure that he had worked out with his team beforehand, what his answer might be to a question about his age that had been in the news, but he wasn’t reading it. It’s also a salient point that, fou… (View Post)