FT this morning... At age 16, the rate of education participation in the UK is similar to low-Neet countries, but rapidly falls behind by age 18. Just 66 per cent of British 18-year-olds are in educa… (View Post)

You would think any constituency with the word "ferry" in it would be bad for the SNP... (View Post)

France tried exempting overtime from tax, as Reform now propose. It didn't work: https://www.ipp.eu/en/news/exempting-overtime-from-taxation-an-assessment-of-the-french-experiment/ (View Post)

Billions. Makes Peter Murrell’s fraud look trivial in comparison. (View Post)

"Pencil" in Russian is "карандаш", or "karandash". Caran d'Ache were the first to get pencils to Russia, so that became the name, like a hoover, aspirin or escalato… (View Post)