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 … (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 im… (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)

Even with the much vaunted More In Common hypothetical leaders poll, which some cling on like a lifebuoy after a shipwreck, a Conservative Party led by Rishi Sunak would be tied 24-24 with Reform so … (View Post)