TimS

If we’d stayed in the EU and joined the Euro we would be enjoying ECB gilt yields of around 3.5% and the government could sell paper to its heart’s content. The French bond yield has fallen by 0.3% t… (View Post)

I filled up the car this morning. Diesel 135.9p, petrol 129.9p. Ridiculously and criminally cheap. Across in France it’s about 165-169 cents. A 10p hike in fuel duty would raise around 12 billion per… (View Post)

That’s been the case across the West for a few years, and it’s dangerous (not in Australia, but certainly in the US and Europe). Populations that are generally comfortable, but aware of a slow loss o… (View Post)

So we should bump em off, just in case? (View Post)

2/3 is of course a completely made up statistic. The most recent survey, taken days after the sentencing of Axel Rudakabana, had it rising from 50-55% for “the most serious terrorism offences”. Then … (View Post)