In June, PRS said it paid out a record £1.02bn to rights holders last year, up 8% on 2023, beating its five-year plan to top £1bn by 2026.

It is not necessarily true that more government means more of the thing government is now additionally doing.

We’ve had a Nobel Laureate in economics, one who gained his NL for his study of taxation systems.

No, no, that rumour that the fall of the Wall meant we actually got smoking two strokes instead of purring V8s is untrue.

Vegan burgers that “bleed” like meat have been blocked from being introduced in Britain for four years because of delays and red tape.

Clearly, we’ve got to take all the money off the rich folk and give it to the poorer.

The Food Foundations tells us, via email, that: "The introduction of mandatory reporting by all large food companies, including takeaway chains, on the healthiness of their food sales is a game changer. This

We here, along with the lads at the Centre for Policy Studies, spent a decade insisting that the personal allowance for income tax (and national insurance in our case) must be raised.

The thing that really grips our goat here is that idea that an operating subsidy is being called investment.

The charity called on the UK to work with other governments to oppose “extreme inequality”, with private wealth growing eight times faster than the net wealth of governments between 1995 and 2023.

That’ll larn ‘em, eh? Pass a law which increases the profits of the fossil fuel companies in order to punish the fossil fuel companies for causing climate change.

The price of graduates has fallen. To, it appears, less than zero. Or, to be slightly more accurate, to less than the minimum wage that the law, in its majesty, insists any labour must be paid.