Trouble is that the answer involves the means testing of benefits becoming less of a brutal cliff-edge by giving more money to poor people. Even if that works out as a net benefit for society and the… (View Post)

This goes back to my "national hangover" thing. A lot of the problems stinking the nation out at the moment have roots going back years, and many of them are of the sort where it's pre… (View Post)

Though we don't normally blame the funeral director for the stiffness of the stiff. The culpability for that lies elsewhere. My model of Starmer is much as it was before the election- the father… (View Post)

Yes, this was a bad use of the power of pardon. But you would have to be a much better politician and a much worse father to leave your son to the tender mercies of MAGA justice. And the idea that th… (View Post)

OK, that's a couple of million pounds. Only 98 million to allocate. Very difficult to spend that much when telly advertising isn't allowed. The bandying around of absurd large numbers remin… (View Post)