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1. The government 'prints' or moreover creates at a strike of a key every single penny it spends, all of it. It uses tax and selling bonds (not borrowing the money) as a (demonstrably not very effective) way to manage inflation by removing money from circulation in the economy. 2. As long as...

I'm sure the note was a serious statement. How can a sovereign currency issuer run out of money? Please explain to me mr high-minded?

In the fantasy world where the government is dependent on tax and borrowing to pay for its day to day spending, how does it practically work? Given that a lot of tax isn't paid daily? How does the government pay for things today based on hypothetical taxes paid today?

Have you seen the state of the country you stupid tory c**t

Cheap money has fuelled the house price boom but without it for capital purchases like cars and expensive household goods, the economy would be in an even worse state. The government does not need the private sector to raise capital, jesus wept.

I love an election campaign fought around a complete fallacy, who'd have seen this coming

Usually the players we've had are in a bad way!

Earlsdon is the exception but it's pretty much inner city rather than surburban.

The markets are fine with deficit spending, why wouldn't somebody want a rock solid government bond? With Truss the point was that she was proposing massive tax cuts with very little lead in that had no particular clear aim. It's quite different to using deficit spending to deliver...

The thing is with the 'nice' areas in Cov is that they are just dreary suburbia, there are not really any areas that have a decent centre of their own like you find in some larger cities.

Isn't it Stoke Green really until you get to the estate?

I saw that, the headline figure misrepresents the underlying ones. Guess it shows how much the public are influenced by intangibles.

I didn't watch it but according to yougov the public thought Sunak came out on top, but I agree I think it is academic.

The winter was very mild as well, the weather has been broadly the same for months really just min and max averages go up a couple of degrees

Thought we'd signed somebody from St Etienne at some point.

How many other players have we signed over the years from a club in one of Cov's twin cities?

Manchester City apparently suing the PL for discrimination. Nothing like avoiding justice by creating more barriers to a case ever being heard.

The two things they've written there seem contradictory to me, why shouldn't a woman have her choice of delivery method given that she's been given an explanation of associated risks? The reference to the cost of a section is alarming, sounds like something you'd hear from a Tory.

Bitter boomers life experience has served us well

On the other hand they can work full time, why shouldn't they be able to vote?