The ratchet effect in public expenditure which Alan Peacock and Jack Wiseman decribed in 1961 is still going strong and the causality is: spending --> taxes, so start with the spending (View Post)

Regrettably that is where my former colleagues choose to have our regular reunions. If the conversation flags the food doesn't help (View Post)

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” (View Post)

Sad to read a valedictory post from one of the best on this site. And may you recover your health and come back here in full fury and eloquence, the sooner the better (View Post)

Why should you think it's meant to be a gotcha? The point is that Starmer has other m'learned friends trumping the national interest with faux legalism (View Post)