I'm curious about one thing with the whole fracking business: in the UK is it remotely even comparably economic to do it when there is clearly still oil and gas in the North Sea and there is the actu… (View Post)

Telegraph wakes up to the reality - which I have banged on about before on here - that social care costs in old age are effectively another aspect of the IHT system: "Rachel Reeves has plans for… (View Post)

There'll be a rate cut in November; US rates are coming down; QT will be wound down; NIESR black hole forecast is over the top; consumers feeling happier; labour markets far from meltdown. (View Post)

The newspapers on an August bank holiday weekend are invariably a complete waste of space or pixels. (View Post)

You forgot the special tunnel that would have to be dug underneath the prison so that migrating Ascension newt can continue to cross the island safely. (View Post)