I don't think this is a problem money can solve. The Tories have been hosing money at stuff (particularly the NHS) without any perceptable improvement. The reality is that we've been living wildly ab… (View Post)
Is that 9.43m working age, or does that include pensioners? "Economic inactivity" is not always a bad thing; my wife is having her last day in the office today (she works from home a mere 1… (View Post)
The problem with the highest paid medics is that whatever we do provides perverse incentives. Tax them at the current tax rates without pension relief, and they may well look at the current marginal … (View Post)
I'll give you some of that, but capacity payments to fossil fuel providers are definitely part of the net zero costs - we wouldn't need to pay for a load of power stations to stand idle if we weren't… (View Post)
I saw some posts this morning about the cost of electricity, and some people were trying to tell us that net zero was going to make electricity cheaper. Co-incidentally, I spent a chunk of this after… (View Post)