As always, it depends on the level it's set at. Some businesses - some industries - will inevitably become unviable once the minimum wage pushes up beyond a certain level. Care and agriculture are tw… (View Post)

You can't not have decision-making though. Ultimately, the politicians have to be accountable, which means they have to have some degree of power. In an ideal world, they just pick highly capable peo… (View Post)

But even if we use the lower figure, the question is still: do you want to give £11.5bn to water company shareholders, so that the state can carry on doing pretty much exactly what the water companie… (View Post)

That's a question of regulation. Ofwat has been captured by the water companies. If you link caps on dividends and executive bonuses and salaries to pollution levels then you'd almost certainly see t… (View Post)

That was cancelled because: 1. Stupidly high costs coming from a gold-plated scheme, political demands for unnecessary tunnels and the general expensiveness of land. 2. Political choices over how to … (View Post)