Dan Neidle has just suggested a “new” tax https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/07/27/social-care-costs-lottery/ Worth reading for the insanity of it (View Post)

We need to educate the electorate - as we can't change them. But that's an impossible task especially when Kemi is playing politics badly. This is an interesting and accurate insight into t… (View Post)

Reversing that cost about £900m and created whole sets of problems for blended families which simply had been ignored by the Tories. Now granted I only know about this 2nd/3rd hand from Twin A's… (View Post)

Even if that's the case the time to announce that you want to bin it is in the middle of winter not 10 days before we get the hottest period of weather ever recorded in the UK.. (View Post)

It’s the sort of figure you use to make it sound like you’ve worked on the maths rather than going 0.5% will do. And because it’s below 0.5% it sounds both generous and fully worked out (I suspect it… (View Post)