J D Vance walks sadly into his library and returns the biography of William Henry Harrison to the shelf. (View Post)

Surely that's not possible? "I never have gaffes... I never have to clarify.. Because I think very carefully about what I say" (View Post)

Good. I think we all sort-of accept that many of our national problems come from buying too much imported tat on the never-never. There's no path to national financial healing that doesn't … (View Post)

The mistake was when the Triple Lock was created. It's a decent idea to have the state pension drift up a bit gradually for a few decades- the pure inflation lock was making the basic pension to… (View Post)

And we're now in the bit of the doom loop where Figure 1 has to keep going up because Figure 9 went down. You can sweat capital assets a bit more for a year or two. But eventually it catches up … (View Post)