the people who are affected most by high interest rates would tend to be younger households. older people, older house holders, are more likely to have paid off their mortgages they are mortgage free so they don t feel the impact of the increase in mortgage rates. you could spread the pain more broadly, so those households that, perhaps, aren t facing higher mortgage rates currently households that don t hold mortgages would potentially contribute towards the squeeze in demand by paying higher taxation. you could argue for a property tax, for example. yet there are also practical problems with using tax and spending policy to control inflation. history suggests it s hard to get the timing right, and when it comes to tax and spending political considerations often interfere unhelpfully. this is why the practice in recent decades has been to leave inflation control to the independent bank of england. however there is certainly more open thinking going on among respectab
and they have specific objectives included in them that need to be met, and that is up to each individual country to agree with nato, so they include areas like cybersecurity and also. and information sharing. cybersecurity and also. .. and information sharing.- cybersecurity and also. and information sharing. there were also talks of information sharing. there were also talks of opening information sharing. there were also talks of opening a - information sharing. there were also talks of opening a nato - also talks of opening a nato office in tokyo, but then france strongly objected to it. can you tell us about differences of opinion about how nato should deal with the concerns over china, with these asian allies. so, i think the conversation is increasingly around the interconnectedness between the end of pacific region, notjust around china, but of course around china, but of course around concerns about china as well. we have seen that mentioned in the re
are suddenly back on the table. they re going through the israeli parliament again after mr netanyahu, amid the last crisis over this a few months ago, had put them on hold. but the far right and ultra religious elements of his coalition are pushing for all of this to happen. they see this as the time to act, their best chance to get all this through. mr netanyahu is politically weaker than he s ever been in his premiership. he s on trial for corruption. there is the concurrent security crisis in the occupied palestinian territories. and so we see this deepening aggravation in israel that deeply dividesjewish israeli society. and the protests now are back on. and i think they re going to last for days, weeks, even months more. and in a sign of the international pressure on mr netanyahu to try and sort this thing out, we ve had the white house tonight saying that they expect the israeli government to respect peaceful protest. just weeks after a migrant boat disaster of the coast of gree
0ur middle east correspondent tom bateman has more from tel aviv. in tel aviv, we saw more violence. there were mounted police that in one instance trampled a protester. so more pretty heavy handed stuff there as well. it feels like the atmosphere around these protests has become much more charged, and that is because these proposed judicial reforms are suddenly back on the table. they re going through the israeli parliament again after mr netanyahu, amid the last crisis over this a few months ago, had put them on hold. but the far right and ultra religious elements of his coalition are pushing for all of this to happen. they see this as the time to act, their best chance to get all this through. mr netanyahu is politically weaker than he s ever been in his premiership. he s on trial for corruption. there is the concurrent security crisis in the occupied palestinian territories. and so we see this deepening aggravation in israel that deeply dividesjewish
amid the last crisis over this a few months ago, had put them on hold. but the far right and ultra religious elements of his coalition are pushing for all of this to happen. they see this as the time to act, their best chance to get all this through. mr netanyahu is politically weaker than he s ever been in his premiership. he s on trial for corruption. there is the concurrent security crisis in the occupied palestinian territories. and so we see this deepening aggravation in israel that deeply dividesjewish israeli society. and the protests now are back on. and i think they re going to last for days, weeks, even months more. and in a sign of the international pressure on mr netanyahu to try and sort this thing out, we ve had the white house tonight saying that they expect the israeli government to respect peaceful protest. dozens of people have died