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)

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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)

By a fairly small amount, though. Let's catastophise and say a million very rich people leave. That will only move the median down by half a million people, and in a bit of the graph that's… (View Post)