I don't think it's equivalent. The argument is that we cannot afford to fall out with the government of our main ally with Musk as a member of that government. Hence we need to suck it up w… (View Post)

. That is utterly dumb. If someone abuses his ownership of a major social media platform to push a stream of lies about people in your government in order to overthrow it, you might either ignore it … (View Post)

The case for exempting VAT on private schools rests on two basic arguments I think. Unfortunately for the people making them, neither quite stacks up. Argument 1 is that private education is a societ… (View Post)

VAT on private education is one of the very few, maybe only Brexit opportunity anyone has taken advantage of. Discrimination on means of delivery is banned under EU VAT rules. (View Post)

If he does shut the SMO down ... My guess is Trump will go for a deal, which will fail mainly because Ukraine and Russia have incompatible goals and Putin overestimates the strength of his position, … (View Post)