The war on tax
Tax avoidance is an arms race. If we spend more on collection, corporations will spend more on avoidance, and we’ll waste money on an unwinnable war against better accountants. That’s the argument....
View ArticleI don’t want to be the Nation of No
We can argue forever about immigration, economics or housing. I certainly don’t know the answers, and few people seem to agree about the data. But to me, it comes down to this: as a nation, who do we...
View ArticleJo Cox
It’s a sad day, and I’m trying to focus on that, and not be angry. Her poor kids. Of course, it’s too soon to judge Jo Cox’s killer. He may be mentally ill. So I’m not judging him. I’m perfectly happy...
View ArticleNational Pride
In 1938, Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, said of the crisis brewing in Europe that it was a “quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing“ Nearly 80 years...
View ArticleWhat Brexit means
So we lost. I mean we all lost, not just Remain. If you don’t follow politics, let me put it in a football metaphor. This was England vs England in the World Cup final: and England still managed to...
View ArticleBehind Brexit lies a yearning for a past we destroyed.
On the whole, I prefer the future: it’s where I intend to spend the coming years. However, I do understand a perfectly natural sense of yearning nostalgia. I suspect that’s why most people voted for...
View ArticleThe end is nigh
I cordially dislike political acronyms: they tend to be so broad as to be meaningless. All those Yuppies and Nimbies and Dinkies are usually nothing of the sort. So it’s with some trepidation that I...
View ArticleBrexit cannot break the Iron Triangle
In all the chaos surrounding Brexit, I keep coming back to the same, simple fact: this is essentially a basic failure of project management. Experts are out of favour right now, but what I’m about to...
View ArticleWeep: it’s our next Prime Minister
Current candidates for Prime Minister are: 1 Boris Johnson Artfully dishevelled tribunal-magnet whose ego can be seen from Venus. Caught on tape conspiring to break journalist’s ribs, up in court for...
View ArticleThe exploits of Boris Johnson
A list - probably soon to be added to - of the proven transgressions of the sexual predator, criminal, fraudster, liar, racist, sexist idiot we have as Prime Minister.
View ArticleFiveQuidFoodBank
Today is #WorldKindnessDay, and what an absolutely terrible thing it is. Today, on World Kindness Day, 590,000 Britons rely on Foodbanks, and I just spent £19 on a bottle of wine for the weekend. I...
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