Devolution by TV transmitter regions! Definitely the way to go. The only place it doesn't really work is the Cambridge-Peterborough-Northampton-Milton Keynes block. Just too generic. Hence the B… (View Post)

Depends which Faragists. The golf club boors of Kent, the former right wing Conservatives, probably are rich enough that they want minimal state services. Apart from social care for themselves and th… (View Post)

Grim and grisly paradox. The more we make the state efficient, by withdrawing services from those who are comfortable enough to not need them, the worse the cost: benefit analysis looks for most vote… (View Post)

If you think that one of the UK's problems is that employers would rather throw cheap bodies at problems than spend on training or automation, then taxing such employment more might help. (I gue… (View Post)

But also... A generation who can get to their mid-to-late fifties having done enough to make enough to not need to work for the money. The satisfaction of exercising a talent, doing good in the world… (View Post)