There's always a Yes, (Prime) Minister gag. Bach and leather books on mahogany shelves = radical change, Stravinsky and abstract art = nothing new. A party called Reform will try and keep things… (View Post)

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)