“In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes,” wrote Benjamin Franklin; but he never envisioned those two phenomena would become combined. Yet that is the case in Britain today, with the Death Tax, the ultimate paradigm of the bastard capitalism (on the analogy of bastard feudalism) that is hobbling enterprise, for the transient advantage of the state.
Tories heading for Cleverly v Badenoch run off
It’s uncertain where centrist Tugendhat’s twenty voters will now go. Though it is highly unlikely that Jenrick will pick up any.