The Gulf states are very adept at appealing to rich, right wing Westerners. People who in normal times would be Islamophobes get rather weak at the knees at what they offer: old fashioned family valu… (View Post)

The great Facebook Boomer meme paradox out in force this morning. 1. “Modern Britain is shit, the country is going to the dogs. It was much better in the olden days” 2. “Life in the olden days was na… (View Post)

Badenoch’s SDLT idea is a good one. It needs to be paid for, ideally by land value taxation. As it happens I was on a panel at the conference fringe on Monday and we were asked a question by a CIOT r… (View Post)

It’s possibly the least predictable election ever. We could see anything from Reform majority to ConRef coalition to Lab majority, Lib-Lab pact, Reform minority, rainbow anti Reform coalition. Who kn… (View Post)

Let’s unpick this a little as it’s a few months since the first outbreak of commentary on the agreement, and because it’s a good example of the way the media creates and social media propagates bizar… (View Post)