That question only works if you add the other half of the equation. Do we want a hospitality industry so much that we are willing to increase other taxes or cut other spending to subsidise it? Do we … (View Post)

Pretty much. From there to Toby/Harvester/Pizza Express, anyway. Yes, I know. Or a very short menu done brilliantly, I guess. (Reducing the options was Gordon Ramsay's usual refrain on Kitchen N… (View Post)

After all, it was a temporary COVID fix and that's now long in the past. As with the Triple Lock, the issue is that there was never an exit strategy. Besides, I think we all agree that we want a… (View Post)

Professor Rosenblum called it correctly forty years ago: They'll never put you in a situation where you have no choice. They'll stick to salami tactics. Admittedly he was talking about Russ… (View Post)

There was a conversation here recently about why the Quakers were such successful entrepreneurs. In part, that was because they held themselves to higher standards, enforced only by a sky fairy. But … (View Post)