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I agree that we will need to pay more tax 'further down the food chain'. And there is evidence that plenty of us are willing to consider that, as long as we believe that it will result in the better public services that that we all want. But convincing people to do this won't be easy as long as...

Evidence - yes there is lots, including from the IMF here: https://www.elibrary.imf.org/abstract/IMF006/11692-9781463926564/11692-9781463926564/11692-9781463926564_A001.xml?redirect=true (though I will caveat that, by sayig I am not sure that paper specifically considers the UK - and I have only...

I won't deconstruct that one in detail, as I have no idea what I think. As a fellow grumpy old man, I also find myself resenting the sense of entitlement in the younger generation. Though i also understand that there are pressures and worries now that we never had to contend with. But I'll have...

You may not be their target audience.

I don't think it's meaningless. From a political perspective (and the point of the article I linked to) it is one part of a bigger picture. It says that a lot of people like the ideas, and the sense of ambition, coming from Labour. This is one part of a much bigger package of ideas, they...

I suspect plenty of people understand it well enough. They certainly understand very well who the current government represent and work for. example, . Corbyn’s nationalisation policies, monstered by Conservative HQ and in the Tory press, are consistently popular with voters. A YouGov poll...

Labour leadership may be playing a blinder (we'll see): 'For Corbyn and his team, Brexit is not about just leaving the European Union. It is about how working class voters, largely in towns and communities across England, felt the control they had over their lives has been taken away from them...