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Sorry Ian, I appear to have come across the same news story. Wasn't following this thread recently so didn't see your post until I had replied already.

The IMF has recently issued a report on higher tax rates and inequality. It was reported in the Guardian and seized upon by Labour to justify hiking tax rates. IMF: higher taxes for rich will cut inequality without hitting growth The Guardian report doesn't contain any untruths. However it...

My mutual consent. Has he ever had success as a manager? Such a fantastic player, but doesn't seem to have the ability as a manager.

Most of the top clubs have tricky games this weekend: Luton have Stevenage; Exeter and Wycombe play each other as do Mansfield and Swindon. If we can win this one then we could jump in the league.

I love Dickens. I'm not sure I have a favourite writer, love all sorts.

He's one of the new young writers of the 80s who all write in a similar style: Ian McEwan; Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie. I believe they are all mates. I think I have read all of his books apart from the new childrens' one about a giant. Most people will have seen the movie "The Remains of...

He's won the Nobel Prize for literature. Very well deserved in my opinion. Thoughts?

You got me. That's exactly what I said, almost verbatim.

Yeah, that policy is nuts. Stoking demand in a situation where supply is short.

I know nothing about Yemen so I won't comment on that. What I will say, is that a discussion about which party has made which mistake about which war seems pointless to me. All parties have been involved in wars, and often public opinion about whether they are just or not depends on the...

If you reduce supply beyond what the market will take then indeed it will cause inflation: wages go higher, cost of goods goes higher and demand for goods and services increases due to the extra money in pockets: further boosting inflation. However we have too much supply presently and hence...

We agree with the problem, just not the solution. I believe that a soaring minimum wage will just inflate the problem back. The Tories tried to solve the same problem by reducing in work credit. In my opinion, the problem will stay whilst we have no control of low-skilled immigration.

You have to assume that it they'd more serious intentions they would have had a weapon which would have been found. I like his comedy; saw him in Edinburgh two years ago - but I don't think this was very funny. Not because it was May; because it was a poor joke.

We've done this to death in other threads. There was a world wide recession caused by banks. There are two main banking hubs in the world: New York and London. And at the time London was becoming bigger than New York. The banking crisis was caused by their own stupidity but also by...

My take on Corbyn and the IRA. He's deliberately avoided saying that he condemns them in interviews, even when pressed he says "I condemn all violence". Why? I think it is because he still has some political pressures not to condemn them - either by his own Left wing support base or because...

The big advantage I see is reducing in work benefits, which are effectively a subsidy for some companies. However when government implements any mandate that isn't aligned with market, market readjusts. So I think that the country will just inflate its way back to what market will support.

Yes, but imagine what the company Tony works for would do. They export I believe? What impact would it have on their competitiveness abroad? Would they invest in more automation and release people? When they hired people, would they take a risk on a school leaver, or would they rather bring in...

This question has a point: What do you think would happen if the minimum wage were £50 per hour?

Much weaker penalty too, less pace and closer to the keeper.

Two very weak/stupid penalties to concede, neither looks like a golden opportunity to score.