The appeal of populism, of whatever flavour, is that it claims to offer easy solutions. "Your life sucks, but there's one easy trick that to turn it round, but THEY don't want to do it… (View Post)

And the last LotO to lose, stay on, and still become PM later was Heath, wasn't it? As a society, we're much more inclined to cast into the outer darkness; I'm fairly confident that on… (View Post)

Though, as with Truss, some of that is surely mental self-care. The alternative to thinking that he was unfairly and temporarily ousted is for BoJo to acknowledge that he was the author of his own do… (View Post)

Besides- the free market selling price of everything is as much as the seller can get away with. Always has been, that's how the system is meant to work. The only question is what mechanisms sto… (View Post)

Was WFA temporary? It ought to be redundant now that the core pension is quite a lot higher in real terms, but I don't remember that being put in place in that way. (The Triple Lock really ought… (View Post)