How does Starmer survive that? Having to use opposition votes to get through an act the public love and his back-benches hate will surely rip his last hints of credibility to shreds, and be quickly f… (View Post)

If nothing else, fairly basic economic theory suggests that if the places where there is lots of viable solar start using it in place of oil and gas, the demand reduction should reduce the price of o… (View Post)

But it's not a magic money tree. Every penny of that £100bn would have come out of someone's pocket - and in doing so driven inflation up, and economic activity down. With the economy in th… (View Post)

I believe they've just started a new UK series - set in Downing Street. (View Post)

Trouble with this particular attempt to play the man rather than the ball is that, assuming the IEA wonk's facts regarding the OBR's stated assumptions are correct (it seems probable that t… (View Post)