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Sorry if it's wasn't clear. It's that public sector pay has fallen being private sector pay in relative terms, not that it should be exactly comparable with the private sector. This was from the FT, and it's starting with both sectors on 100 at the start of the coalition, but over time they've...

It's actually quite an interesting listen. There are a few key bits. One is that the 1.5bn figure already includes the likelihood of 95000 people signing up. They also claim that the 3900 is out of date, and could be as low as 2900 (which brings the figure if everyone claimed down to around...

Public sector pay has fallen well behind private sector pay in the last 14 years, which is a major reason why the Tories were facing ongoing strikes across the sector. The Government are also unsurprisingly, only going to be negotiating pay with employees in the public sector, so it's a bit of...

Don't you mean, "Now Beth, I know you want to talk about donations and gifts but I want to talk about the flour sacks that I've decorated as 18th century cats."

There was no VAR so no point in waiting.

I'm not sure they ever really sorted out whether this rate worked as it simply wasn't in place for long enough. As you say it has people paying extra in advance of the higher 50% rate comes in, while at the other end it had people holding out till the lower 45% rate came in. These figures, I...

Agree on the final point. I guess we'll see what happens - but I'd hope that they're able to row back on the tax allowance freeze later in the parliament. Not sure that the markets would be too shocked by a little, or even quite strong relaxation of the rules. To a great extent, they're...

I wonder if football would explode, if the rule that keepers only had 6 seconds to hold the ball was actually enforced. I remember at the 2012 Olympics, when Canada played the USA in the women's football, the Canadian keeper was penalised for it. Turns out the USA team captain was standing next...

Ah, I thought you were replying to the conclusion, where they picked out Gvardiol. I think it will end up with one of the others. Or more likely a couple of players doing the role. One advantage we have is that with Rodri becoming more attacking, other players have been filling in throughout...

With the rules on keepers, it's obvious why he is chosen as the one to sit down. As far as I can see, the only way around it, would be to ban the coaching cluster itself when a keeper is down injured.

It's clearly difficult for the ref. With Raya, he starts with the nonsense where they pretend he's kicking, then he changes his mind and gives it to a defender, or vice versa. After he was warned, it was mostly just moving a little slower, which wastes just a few seconds, but stays just the...

Left back is a less pressured position, and Pep was pushing the left back into midfield much of the time anyway, so it was probably an easier transition. Gvardiol looks like a great player, but it's a huge step up going from the left back role to the DM in a City team. 50% of Rodris role is in...

They've not had a budget yet.

Didn't she announce yesterday that there won't be real cuts in overall spending? They've also floated changes to the borrowing rules, with potentially some quite large increases in investment (Reports yesterday of £30bn+, although it wouldn't surprise me if they floated something big, and then...

Apparently booked because he was the one passing on to Raya instructions to sit down, so they could have a tactics break. Easy sacrifice, given he was never going to come on.

I'm not sure I agree. Haaland never completed another full game after that tackle. It wasn't just a few studs that had no effect on the rest of his body - there was enough force to flip him over and he landed on his head. He may have been carrying an injury already, or damaged it further in...

Isn't it something that will happen over a reasonably long timeframe? The average age of a scrapped car had reached 16 years in 2021 (latest figures I could find). That means there could still be millions of ICE cars on the road in 2051. You'd assume that the switch to electric will happen...

Once we're all electric, and connected to the all-seeing computer, it'll be easy. If your car tax isn't paid, they just switch off your car ;)

This is genuinely hilarious. He clearly think he's a modern man, who is in touch and self-aware. Yet can't help but show himself up as feeling somehow special, because of what his ancestors did nearly a millennia ago. Will be good to see the back of them...

If you look at all the economics columns, and updates from financial advisors, they all seem to be expecting very similar things, so I doubt there will be major surprises. There's plenty of reports over the last few years, that the markets were a lot more scared of the Tories, whose economics...