Corollary: whilst stemming/stopping the boats is necessary, it won't be sufficient to placate a significant slice of public opinion. For them the Blairwave and Boriswave were such awful things that t… (View Post)

The potenitally saving grace is that it's a temporary thing for this individual, not a failure of the entire concept. Mr Justice Sheldon said the man's lawyers must do all that is possible to make fu… (View Post)

It may be cock-eyed optimism on my part, but surely top politicians don't actually do the social media feeds that go out in their name? (View Post)

I'm pretty sure that Rishi wanted low taxes and a small state. Trouble is, he couldn't really find meaningful ways of shrinking the state- despite being Chief Sec, Chancellor and PM. The best he coul… (View Post)

The key thing is an off ramp- a bit in the future, but not too far, before the exponential growth gets silly. The original theory- means-testing pensions is bad, because that discourages most people … (View Post)