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I agree that Braverman is awful, but fail to see how it is good politics. I can’t see that he is doing anything but alienate sensible centrist Tories who could well have much more liberal views on immigration, or business people who see the need to relax the immigration hard line for...

I think it was broadly about Scandinavian countries, but it’s only something I read in passing so couldn’t substantiate it or refute it. If I find anything I’ll bring it back. but it doesn’t alter the fact that this household for one would be willing to pay a bit more tax for better public services.

agree with all that. and I have found myself thinking on occasion over the last few days why tax rises are so beyond the pail! In the short term I’m sure it should be doable that taxes could be increased while protecting the most vulnerable. In the normal run of things, I would be happy to pay...

That seems a rather aggressive response to what I thought was a fairly harmless post. I don’t know how it was implemented, so I can’t say whether i would have done it differently. I’m not blaming the Tories for dishonest companies……. Unless they were encouraging them to be dishonest, which I...

There are plenty of places where furlough was absolutely necessary. There are others who abused it enormously. I can remember reading things about big accountancy concerns furlougoing people but still expecting them to work - either at home or in the back of the building so the lights weren’t on...

That’s why I said naively. but Sunak was also one of the first to resign when it got too much. I don’t like his politics, but I think he’s much more likely to do things properly and be honest. my interpretation of what has happened over the weekend and Johnson’s conversations with Sunak and...

The only way is up! We hope! trusting naively that this might be the return to some sort of decent standards in public life.

Sunak won’t be as utterly stupid as Truss. The safe pair of hands option.

The Guardian website reckoned 60.