Reducing affluence for oldies is going to be a significant long term change - but I think that is already priced in to GenX (and younger) thinking. The Tories have already got the blame for NHS workf… (View Post)

If *all* Labour achieve is one or two small things that they said they would do in their manifesto, without sounding like they enjoy torturing baby animals as they do so, they will be "successfu… (View Post)

Tough on speeches. Tough on the causes of speeches. (View Post)

I would also have made it something like "Work with France" because making new agreements is a hostage to fortune. But working with them can mean anything in a generally positive sense. (View Post)

This is what is possibly unique about this government - they are the furthest right we have seen in my lifetime, and yet they are so spectacularly useless they have contrived to produce a situation w… (View Post)