This is going to introduce all sorts of unfairness around bands and re-valuations and all sorts of nonsense, stretching literally decades into the future. Last sale price*change in local HPI*0.01. Do… (View Post)

Well, there are taxes that can be raised. They just happen to be the worst ones. Ideally, governments should raise revenues through unavoidable, simple taxation that is as close to the point of consu… (View Post)

Christ this is all so depressing. (View Post)

Enjoying Dan Hannan's "ancestral voices" theory. Maybe that's why I keep waking up wanting to invade India, or burn down Lindisfarne, or grow some broad beans. (View Post)

I'd normally agree with that - but London is a poor example because there are now 1.3 million trips per day by bicycle which for some reason Malmesbury forgets in his calculation. That's the equivale… (View Post)