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In the spirit of applauding good customer service, I put my passport application in on 27th May, and popped my old passport in the post to them the following day. (This was a bank holiday weekend) I got an update this Monday (5th June) to say my old passport had been received, two updates...

Honestly, there’s a host of different ways out of our current situation, including horrible unworkable ones. My personal preference would be for greater focus on taxation of capital gains, and less on income, and/or for wage growth to become a government priority. (Yes, I know this would be...

It genuinely would. The knock-on effects would be to stoke short-term inflation (bad) but be long-term positive for the U.K. economy, with wage increases for the private sector being paid for by a vastly increased potential customer base for businesses serving the low and middle income...

This is the U.K.’s largest employer by far we’re talking about. The only better way of increasing demand in the U.K. economy than increasing Civil Service pay, would be by making our benefits regime hugely more generous, allowing benefits claimants to participate in the High Street economy a...

If you overpaid civil servants, they’d have more disposable income and would spend more in the wider economy. It seems a really popular trope “overpaid civil servants” but in calling for the beggaring of those working for the U.K.’s largest employer, you are also calling for starving the...