Means testing relatively small benefits is almost always a bad idea. You increase the administration costs a lot for little savings. It would be smarter to abolish WFA and bump up the state pension i… (View Post)

What really gets me is that the government seem to have proceeded from the general election with no real planning for being blown off course, when anybody ought to have realised that Trump being re-e… (View Post)

It's worth noting that many of those trips will have been booked long in advance, and people will be reluctant to cancel. If anyone had comparable numbers for current bookings that would be inte… (View Post)

Exactly. It's not about Signal, Signal is secure, but these personal devices are on the public internet, and there is no authentication and access control for the participants. These twerps are … (View Post)

They can say what they like, but nobody believes them. All the market indicators, all business activity data, all the travel data, and all the diplomatic and trade moves excluding America are pointin… (View Post)