Applying the hammer of more taxes to motor vehicles (which huge numbers of people, including millions on low incomes, cannot manage without) is little better than simply extracting an ever-rising per… (View Post)

Labour is at risk of spending so much time pandering to the Conservatives' natural backers that many of its own won't bother to turn out, whilst all those aged homeowners and their expectant heirs wi… (View Post)

Pretty much. Except that their core vote will notice when they keep on getting poorer, and Labour will end up even more unpopular than the Tories. At least the Tory core vote (the rich and the middle… (View Post)

Putting it crudely, I think it depends how much those demanding reparations are after, and from whom. There's a case for requesting that the wealthy descendants of those who profited from slave tradi… (View Post)

Everything is political on some level. Knighting Captain Tom could've be interpreted as a rebuke to libertarian detractors of the NHS. There shouldn't be anything particularly controversial about say… (View Post)