Ron Swanson and Leslie Knope couldn't put it better. I suspect that a lot of our difficulties of having societal conversations come from making them abstract and remote. It's much harder to… (View Post)

Not even that- there are some children who have the misfortune to be born to terrible parents. And those children are very liable to be very expensive for society to deal with for decades to come. A … (View Post)

5040 goals? Blimey, that's a one-sided match. (View Post)

Which was the point of its introduction. If you need to means-test a pension for it to be possible to live off, you discourage people from saving. Increasing the basic pension from cruelly stingy to … (View Post)

It's the point of that Macmillan 'family silver' speech, that we've spent decades ignoring. The conservative thing to do is to grow the endowment, leave a better inheritance for t… (View Post)