The Government has to pay for an awful lot of stuff, and the bills keep increasing. If it won't tax more, does it intend to borrow more or to reduce the amount of stuff it pays for? Those are the onl… (View Post)

With luck interest rates will climb into double digits and there'll then be an almighty house price crash. It's the one thing that might finally send the Conservatives' support into proper freefall. (View Post)

All Government consists of now is stupid people vomiting forth an endless stream of very stupid ideas, whilst everything burns down around us. (View Post)

What is the limit on the number of people that Earth can support? 10 billion? 20 billion? A trillion? The planet is already substantially ecologically denuded and the situation continues to deteriora… (View Post)

It's not half as much a problem as what would happen next if people started breeding like bunnies again. The inversion of the demographic pyramid is a very painful phenomenon but we're going to have … (View Post)