This morning's Times: energy bills to be hiked massively for most working households in the Spring; old people (regardless of wealth) to continue to benefit from existing price cap. Quelle fucking su… (View Post)

There are only two real priorities in public policy: minimising the taxation of assets and the state pension triple lock. Everything else is expendable. Time for our regular reminder that the nation'… (View Post)

Dubai is an autocracy that is (a) buoyed up by vast oil wealth, (b) can import third world slave labour to work for almost nothing and then throw it back out again when it's all used up, and (c) need… (View Post)

The Lib Dem property wheeze is, unsurprisingly, about state bungs that will disproportionately benefit mortgage payers in the wealthiest parts of the country. People already safely on the property la… (View Post)

The Tories take precisely one thing seriously: filling the pockets of themselves and their key backers (elderly homeowners in Southern England, and the very rich) by fucking over the rest of the popu… (View Post)