It's not hindsight when the Cabinet Office are warning in 1980 this is a bad idea, when having a national oil company was part of Labour's 1983 manifesto and when the Norwegians made a different deci… (View Post)

This, I suspect, is why wealth taxes may need to be paired with reducing income taxes. (View Post)

Hope this is an opportunity for Labour. Arguably Tories are doing this at perfect electoral time... break promises/do the unpopular stuff well before an election. I'm coming round to the idea that La… (View Post)

Scottish numbers in hospital rising pretty fast -> doubled in last 12 days. Don't really understand why it's so different there... feels like must be schools spreading cases and then going up to p… (View Post)

He got better odds though ;) (View Post)