We could probably have knocked a year off the war by sacking Harris. The area bombing campaign, whatever you think of its morality, was ludicrously ineffective until better navigation, first by onboa… (View Post)

A couple of weekends ago we discovered another class of gambler masquerading as investor when the cryptocurrency flash crash cleaned out a few City types (and probably more in America). Although pric… (View Post)

It is not that simple. There are an awful lot of anti-gamblers who see high street betting shops and online casinos as blights on their communities and a menace to society. For them, raising taxes is… (View Post)

Oh yes. I recognise my position is a unicorn – I genuinely do not care either way about the Royal Family, unlike most of those who use this as cover for republicanism. The prince is no longer a duke.… (View Post)

Not so, look at the cost of the GFC (and for that matter, Covid) and none of your solutions would have touched the sides. And as we have discussed last week, the American economy with which we were i… (View Post)