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)

Remember those MC Escher-style perspective-defying photos designed to hide how tiny Rishi Sunak was? (Who was his gigantic Chief Sec?) CCHQ seem to have failed to renew the contract with the designer… (View Post)

That might be the headline conclusion from the conference season. Neither Starmer nor Badenoch are that good (opinions vary on who is worse), but the touted replacements (Burnham and Jenirck) have sh… (View Post)

Actual tax cuts (or if it triggers someone less, reduced tax increases) paid for by fantasy spending cuts is what Hunt ended up doing. Having a double slice of chocolate cake because you have looked … (View Post)