Plenty of hyperbole and hysteria on this both last night and this morning. Of course it's not good the publicly-funded (and that's the point) broadcaster has been caught out and it makes you wonder h… (View Post)

I suppose when what's "in front of your shoes" is a deficit of £150 billion or so it does concentrate the mind. Once again we get the "supply side reform" mantra with the accompan… (View Post)

Evening all :) Reading through the day's missives, an enormous amount of, to be blunt, hatred but let's call it contempt for Rachel Reeves. I seem to recall she was considered the answer after Anneli… (View Post)

Pension provision notwithstanding, the other factor might be downsizing. Assuming you bought a property in the 80s or 90s and assuming you paid off the mortgage during the extended period of low inte… (View Post)

In the bi-weekly Facetime with the mother-in-law in New Zealand, we were told Christopher Luxon's latest idea is to get all the rough sleepers out of the central business district of Auckland. Don't … (View Post)