Salmond, in fairness, got it. He saw that an independent Scotland had to stand on its own feet, that its tax base must be grown to the point that existing or ideally improved public spending could be… (View Post)

Almost the only interesting thing that Sarwar has done was to suggest that Starmer should stand down as PM. Of course he did this ineptly and ineffectively having failed to check if anyone was going … (View Post)

My growth forecast for the year was a slightly pessimistic 1.1%. That was, in part, because I was reasonably confident that after the tariff fiasco Trump would find other ways of screwing the world e… (View Post)

Well that's a bit unfair. Almost cheating. (View Post)

That's true but it won't be doing much damage to the share price of the manufacturers of these expensive missiles and bombs who will build replacements. It also highlights another problem t… (View Post)