There's a close correlation and a plausible inference of causality between the rise in NHS long term waiting lists for major operations, the post Covid growth in the economically inactive population … (View Post)

By this morning's headlines, the claims in the Autumn Statement seem to have unravelled even quicker than usual. Shifting the narrative onto tax has just focussed attention back onto the impact of fr… (View Post)

The Autumn Statement seems to have contained remarkably little, by comparison with all the hype. The extension of the business rate reliefs are not cuts in business taxes at all, but merely a continu… (View Post)

PR may not mean specifically Labour majorities again but a hybrid form of PR could deliver stable government on the centre-left for a generation. Specifically, the hybrid "majority bonus" s… (View Post)

"a mathematical certainty the pension will eventually be unaffordable in the long term" Well it would be in theory if all else remained unchanged. But in practice, what we're also seeing in… (View Post)