It's worth repeating we are perhaps four years from a General Election and considering everything that has happened in the last four years, trying to predict the next four years seems a fool's errand… (View Post)

Perhaps and I certainly agree winter fuel payments to higher rate tax payers are hard to defend. I could support winter fuel payments to basic rate taxpayers though I'm not sure what would mean in te… (View Post)

Five years on and hindsight's a wonderful thing. At the time, my experience was most people were happy to go into lockdown - they were scared and the stories coming out of hospitals about the impact … (View Post)

Strange, the Conservatives used to be very keen on personal responsibility. Indeed, it used to be at the core of their philosophy. (View Post)

Again, the desperate desire to return to "normal" masked the long term consequences (as well as many of the short term ones as well). One impact which has continued is public transport usag… (View Post)