Far from what you've been told, privatisation actually *increased* capital investment in our water system.

Via Robert Colvile

I am pleased to see this ridiculous “hate incident” has been thrown out and all records removed from police database. What a total distraction from policing. I’m grateful for The Free Speech Union support fighting this.

In 2018, the Labour-run Hackney council banned any new venues from being open after 11PM on a Friday night. Existing venues were unaffected but when renewing their license had to close at 11PM unless they could prove there would be no noise after 11.

This is the result ⬇️

Code for “this is not happening”. May as well have said the government intends to eventually invent time travel

Dya really think so?

Why is the Chairman of the OBR doing broadcast rounds after Budgets? He's a civil servant required to maintain an extremely delicate position of political impartiality to support evidence-based forecasts. What's to be gained from a chat with Amol Rajan?

Boris looks tired

Free market price: £1.00.
Price under the Tories: £4.60.

Am on a lonely hill on this, but non-dom status is not a bad thing! It just means that people are taxed on what they make and own in the countries where they own and make it. They still pay taxes!

Labour frontbench reaction to Hunt's Angela Rayner gag worthy of hanging in the Louvre

We do have an opening...

lol try getting a pint after 2230 on a Tuesday in central London. The only place looking to us for inspiration is Utah.

The Office for National Statistics lost 90% of its London-based staff when it was relocated to Newport in Wales. Performance also suffered for several years.

Shuffling bureaucrats to other parts of the country is expensive and risky. It is unlikely to fix Britain’s problems.

Never mind the Laffer curve, the Chancellor has now invented the Quaffer curve

By freezing duty on Scotch & spirits the Treasury brought in an extra £1.4bn in revenue

However, last year's over 10% hike in alcohol duty cost them £100m in revenue

When will they learn?

1/2

Seems so. order-order.com/2024/02/13/exc…

Did you attend the meeting of October 31st with Azhar Ali? @GrahamJones_PPC

Guido Fawkes Hezza used virtually the same formulation in 1990

Renationalisation = tax rises or spending cuts