Besides, most of the people I see defending the plan are the vaguely paternalist one nation types who would have been Conservatives until fairly recently, but can't back the current iteration of… (View Post)

And OK, he didn't have to go into politics, he didn't have to become PM, he's missing some key skills for the job. But just imagine that he hadn't run for Labour leader in 2020. W… (View Post)

Do as you would be done by... (View Post)

Meanwhile, in "bet this won't be on the front pages" news, A senior official at the UK's economic forecaster has said he does not believe the chancellor was being misleading when … (View Post)

Trouble is that that taxes serve (at least) two purposes. One, as you say, is to signal disapproval- in extreme cases to punish bad actions. That is totally reasonable. See taxes on tobacco. The othe… (View Post)