Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
UK Labour minister Ellie Reeves reportedly blocked a longer sentence review for an illegal migrant from Afghanistan who raped a 12-year-old girl and filmed it. Public anger is exploding about protecting victims versus lenient policies. "A 12-year-old girl was playing in a park. That is where children belong. Swings. Laughter. Summer light. Within hours she …
‘This is it, the day we all dreaded, a milestone in Britain’s descent into collectivism of the most repugnant kind. We have just witnessed a monstrous Budget delivered by the worst Chancellor in living memory, an obscene mix of untruths and delusion, a farrago of bile, envy and nastiness that will vandalise our economy and …
via notayesmanseconomics The weekend just gone has seen more leaks about the UK November Budget and we are seeing rather a change of tack. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is ratcheting up her plans for tax rises and spending cuts in next month’s Budget in order to create billions of pounds of extra fiscal “headroom” for the …