And the public sector tends to be pretty frugal. Probably too frugal, to the point where it's less efficient. There is a taboo on spending upfront to save in years to come. There also aren't the cycl… (View Post)

And that's why, at the moment, this is Potemkin Policy. Tell us which Civil Servants are going to be axed, and what's going to happen to the work they were doing, and it gets interesting. "It wo… (View Post)

Forget the day-to-day weather; the long-term climatic cycle has been that the British Boomers (born up to about 1965) have basically got what they wanted at each stage of their lives. Hedonism in the… (View Post)

That's the rub. There's half a good idea here- SDLT is a bad way of taxing things- it's lumpy and deters people from moving house. But the other half of the idea is missing; the "plan" is t… (View Post)

Isn't the MAGA wisdom therefore that the government should ignore it, because people should be free to choose and it will only take out the weaker members of the herd anyway? (View Post)