With the important difference that although he found it convenient to pretend otherwise, George W. Bush is in fact an extremely clever man. Trump is definitely not. (View Post)

The problem with saying you will fund things from tariffs - as Joseph Chamberlain found out the hard way from 1903-1906 - is that it's a logical contradiction. If the tariffs work by keeping out… (View Post)

If you like, I could distract him by reporting on the very large number of places in the Algarve that are cash only? (Amusing anecdote. I went to the Fortress of Sagres on Monday, which is officially… (View Post)

The far right side, shurely? (View Post)

More pertinently, it's stupid. The last thing any sane chancellor would be doing is encouraging employers to bully their employees out of making pension contributions. A really daring Chancellor… (View Post)