Off topic: Stamp duty reform. Wife and I are getting moderately serious about buying a nicer house. Our current house is worth about £170k, should sell fairly easily. The sort of houses we envisage l… (View Post)

There wasn't a budget this October. The budget last October took the intended tax take to an all time high as a percentage of GDP, mainly through a very inflationary increase in business taxatio… (View Post)

The problem with the roo-taxi vision is it's great for some use cases, and pretty rubbish for others. My work car is basically a self propelled portable toolbox with seating for 5. I don't … (View Post)

EU is fairly obviously going to either ditch the ban or pushing it back a very long way. That's going to put a lot of pressure on UK policy makers to do the same. Being first out of the traps to… (View Post)

It's worse than that. They want to re-create BR, but instead of as one organisation, in loads of small siloed operations, with the trains still hired in from external owners and the whole thing … (View Post)