Treating it as a pastoral conversion amongst bickering teenagers, I think my agenda would be to get the following things acknowledged: 1 That Angela can't be PM. 2 That Andy can't be PM. 3 … (View Post)

Agree about the fear. The much harder question is whether that fear is real, or a story we tell ourselves to put off a painful inevitability? And we could get back to fiscal sanity by cutting £30 per… (View Post)

Here's the thing, though. £100bn a year is about £30 per person per week. Whether that's tax rises or paying for things directly instead of via the state doesn't change the number. If … (View Post)

Now try doing it with worse demographics and no hydrocarbons. (View Post)

And fuck-ups with bins are impossible to ignore. There are plenty of good, decent, effective councillors who have lost their role this week for no better reason than the wrong rosette. Birmingham… (View Post)