Because it requires doing a lot of complicated yet unglamorous donkey work with foreign powers without which our trade and security networks simply couldn't function. It's probably the job … (View Post)

Nor would our major supermarkets... (View Post)

Dear Mr Burnham This is why it may sound nice to talk tough about the bond markets, but in the real world it doesn’t actually help much if you are running a deficit. Yours Y Doethur Punned It in Chie… (View Post)

As with rather too many benefits, the problem is it's not taxable. Make them taxable and then the problem reduces. Of course, the tax system is run by idiots as well, and there are all sorts of … (View Post)

Richard Tice commenting smugly on his links to the aristocracy can't have helped. (View Post)