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)

There's definitely a racist effect, and one of the neat things about F3PTP is you can measure it. Winning scores in Romford St Edward's (all Reform): Terry 1108 Martin 1075 Sathya 965 (View Post)