Before Truss became PM I suggested she start off with this speech: "We are competing in a world economy against peoples who are as intelligent and educated as us but who are willing to work hard… (View Post)

So you're saying that getting rid of the 45% rate is all important ??? That will have little effect either way as it similarly did when it was reduced to 45% from 50%. If the markets are so both… (View Post)

Returning to an old PB favourite I see that far from there being no strawberries in the shops this year the country was overflowing with them: The UK heatwave has produced a glut in strawberry, cherr… (View Post)

Certainly consumers of imports will be hit financially. But consumers have been pandered to for a generation. Reality has to be faced. And reality says we cannot continually consume more wealth than … (View Post)

The 19th century oceanic telegraph cables would have reduced the time from weeks to hours. (View Post)