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There is probably some merit in the idea that the dollar is overvalued, and would probably be beneficial to get it down in value a bit. That being said, there are more conventional ways to do that.

There may be a silver lining if you're looking to remortgage though: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevdx7wyjvmo

Very unfortunately, that.

You chose to speculate on the housing market, you could have rented if you didn't want to be opposed to such risks. Out of interest, when did you buy? Buying a house has always been hard, but 40 years of above inflation house price rises has really started to bite, especially now there is no...

The time a train leaves the station is, for the most part, irrelevant, we should advertise the last time that boarding the train is possible. The problem is that we have bundled in a value that is meaningful to the customer (the time they need to be on the train by) in with a value they don't...

No wonder people don't use the railways when we have hostile, anti-customer attitudes like that present within the system. If we need some time to dispatch, that should be accounted for in the working timetable after the advertised time of departure.

I hear that the latest controversy is that he is giving out money to buy elections, and claiming it as "free speech". I've heard the phrase "money talks" but didn't think it was literal.

Certainly unrelated to us sweating the assets of the National Grid for the last 50 years...

Has anyone checked to make sure that Rachel Reeves isn't in George Osbourne in a wig?

More useful than a cloud of wreckage. Whilst I agree we should move away from American systems, the fact of the matter is that at this exact moment in time, there are no credible alternatives with the same capabilities. Whilst the implied security guarantees that come with buying lots of...

If you want a 5th generation fighter, that can't be seen on a radar from 100 miles away, your current options are Washington or maybe Beijing.

How much was saved relatively, what investments would provide equivalent economic benefit using the left-over money? I still feel that "easy for some of the largest financial organisations on the planet" is quite a high bar, in fact. Those who talk of competitive markets often forget that a...

Better value for money, or a lower cash price, those two things are often conflated, but different. The Polish ferries might be cheaper, but any economic effects will be felt in Poland, whereas ferries built in the UK provide jobs to the UK, and contribute back to our economy. This is more...

I wonder what restrictions from third parties they could possibly be talking about :D

Perhaps some sort of Limited company to do Engineering for British Rail?

Thats not really how state-level finances work..

Lots of trade protections in the 1800s were made by governments that are a long way from what we'd call Left Wing. Similarly, Clement Attlee signed the UK up to the GATT in 1948 (The agreement that later became the World Trade Organisation)

Are we sure that someone hasn't followed the plot of the movie "Face Off" with Rachel Reeves and George Osbourne?

Left wing Protectionism?

That seems more like an opinion than a fact. Graduates on average pay more tax and contribute more to the economy than non-graduates. How many of those homes are personally owned, and how many are now Private lets?