One of our most pressing economic problems is productivity per worker. A robot tax would compound the problem, making automation more expensive and encouraging further over-dependency on low skilled … (View Post)

Are you in a Reform or a Lib Dem council ward, though? Kent has become one of few true LD-Ref battlegrounds. The Weald is about 50:50, with a smattering of Tories left. And good morning from a beauti… (View Post)

The optics is actually my big annoyance. They can get tough without trash talking. I’m one of those for whom rhetoric is not an irrelevance - on some topics it is critically important, and can make t… (View Post)

Banging on about Starmer and curry again I see. (View Post)

A “speak Spanish” requirement for Brits retiring to the Costas would be somewhat more taxing. (View Post)