Uk govt spending per year is £1.3tn. If you ask the OBR at three different points of the year to estimate the fiscal hole, you might well get answers of 20, 40, 60bn. 20bn is close to a rounding erro… (View Post)

Which Als? Shearer, Carr, Sugar, Rickman etc? Seems like quite a disparate bunch to avoid. (View Post)

If that were the case then PMs simply wouldn't resign and parties would hold onto unpopular lame duck PMs for years until the next election. (View Post)

There is an issue here though. Essentially people who decide they can only afford 1 or 2 kids are being ordered to pay more tax so that others can afford 3 or more kids. It is unsurprising that grate… (View Post)

He learnt what he could be bothered to learn about the world in the 1950s. Cuba was central to that period for US foreign policy. (View Post)