All true, and arguably more relevant than how badly the American Administration is behaving. In the past, the way to show your wealth was to spend it. Not always on philanthropy - though we could rea… (View Post)

1 At the moment, it's all they've got. 2 Part of the current Conservative denial is "the things we did weren't so bad, it was awfully unfair that we were punished so badly for them". See &q… (View Post)

Though if we are wealthy because we own somewhere expensive to live, and we need a lot of wealth because places to live are expensive, how far does that benefit us? (View Post)

The Times is rubbish these days. Worth remembering when they run shock stories. (View Post)

There are some important differences, for now anyway. We're nowhere near as siloed between red and blue, and a much higher proportion of our constituencies are genuinely competitive One third to one … (View Post)