The Labour leadership's enthusiasm for stapling cloth gags to people's faces forever yet again reminds us why there is as much toleration for Boris Johnson as still remains. You only have t… (View Post)

The problem that we now have is that a lot of people are hypersensitised to the subject of Covid deaths, regard any rate of Covid death as unacceptable, and therefore insist that Covid restrictions s… (View Post)

On the general topic of sea level rises caused by melting glaciers: the 70m estimate assumes the collapse of the entire East Antarctic ice sheet, which is very stable and seems unlikely to go except … (View Post)

This is, of course, because the Observer is a tax-and-spend supporting paper, Labour are the tax-and-spend party, and the Tories have driven the proverbial tanks over their flower beds. So what does … (View Post)

No. Yet another consideration for the Bank will be that an awful lot of savers have gone into riskier asset classes to get some sort of return on their money. High interest rates will just whack all … (View Post)