Part of the problem is that it can be either a tax and a loan, depending on if it gets paid off or not. If it was just a tax, then fair enough, the government could just muck about with the rules on … (View Post)

Laws of supply and demand in operation. Increase the supply of graduates substantially (as has happened over the last 30 years), and their price will fall. I didn't need a university economics d… (View Post)

It's been a phenomenonal success in objective terms. Everyone, including the poor, has had their lot improved immeasurably. The problem is that some sectors of those who claim to champion the po… (View Post)

I've made a lot of money out of it. Traditional coal fired, riveted together steam ones too, not household gas boilers. It's quite possible to earn a lot more as a time served boilersmith t… (View Post)

I grew up with that island visible from from our house. If I didn't have an engineering business to run in Derbyshire, I think I would find buying it and moving there very hard to resist. It… (View Post)