I'm not totally sure what your proposal is there. If it's to bring all the assets currently held in private pension pots into the Treasury, and to use it to boost the universal pension, the… (View Post)

The parallels with Solzhenitsyn are inescapable. I've long argued that My Booky Wook is the tome that The Gulag Archipelago could have been, and at least it is some comfort that his persecution … (View Post)

The title of "national treasure" is handed out far too easily these days. I hardly think getting favourable reviews for looking good whilst carrying a sword puts her on a par with David Att… (View Post)

It wasn't really the pandemic that derailed Johnson, though. It was his fundamental character flaws, and in particular his congenital dishonesty and tendency to be driven purely by what is conve… (View Post)

Whilst he might very well be right about Truss's unsuitability, it's quite a weird argument in that it WAS the mini-budget that blew up - HIS mini-budget. (View Post)