Only because we can't, because it's deducted at source (which is or course why the government deducts stuff at source) or because we're too terrified of the (in my experience generally… (View Post)

Two years is an eternity in politics. The short-lived Truss premiership will be ancient history by then. It's the highly likely squeeze in living standards over the next couple of years that is … (View Post)

The British metropolitan government and business generally wanted to trade with the Indians while the British colonists in America generally wanted their land for agriculture. The former thereby infu… (View Post)

FTP: By the way, am I the only one who thinks it amusing when Americans call other people traitors, given that their whole country was founded on treason? It is like when Putin berates the West for e… (View Post)

You're right, they've spent two centuries justifying their treason by pretending that the British monarchy was the worst of the worst. Otherwise they'd have to invalidate their own exi… (View Post)