Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak increased taxes by 2% of GDP. I am not a politics expert so I can't comment on "comfort zones" but the position of the public finances was clear and positioning wrt to the party can't get you out of that.

The idea they could ever have got away with not raising taxes was just silly as plenty of people pointed out before the general election. The scale of cuts that would be needed is incredible, "reform" of public services requires funding and planning reform would never raise growth enough.

This is good on why growth will not solve governments problems www.economist.com/special-repo...

And the previous government had to resort to tax increases to get the public finances to add up, I don't think it's a matter of comfort zones just plain arithmetic.

It was never alive

Operation save medium-sized dog

Sure but the idea never made much sense.

Bring back the days when columnists could just spout their reckons without people second guessing them imo

Yeah or it might be true.

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It's been like that since the end of the cold war, no?

I don't really watch enough BBC to judge but what I do see I generally find to be lightweight rather than biased in any particular direction.

Could be right!

"Non-manual worker" covers most of it.

It didn't seem to me as a non-American that the IRA failed because of opposition from the capitalist class but because of Trump's desire to undo any of his predecessor's successes. The same as his attempt to undo Obamacare during his first term.

I think it's just the standard Cop rhetoric and we continue to see roughly similar trajectories on rich country emissions and investment spending.

Not convinced. US carbon emissions per person have fallen by 30% over the last 15 years along with much sharper falls in Europe.

If those concentric circles are sufficient then a state broadcaster is overkill.

India too though not particularly liberal.

Not my experience.