A super-optimistic scenario might go something like this: The tax cuts and deregulation might turbo-charge the economy, and incidentally show how dismal our own government's approach is, the tar… (View Post)

The Tory/Labour odds show it's a coin toss between them, which feels about right. I think it's the Reform odds that are really suprising. I know things are volatile right now but going from… (View Post)

Rubbish. Everybody knows the only way we'll get prosperity is by taxing, spending and regulating the private sector out of existence. See paradises like North Korea, Venezuela and the old Soviet… (View Post)

Wow, I suppose some urban myths really are indestructible. France isn't America's oldest ally. The alliance treaty between France and the US (imaginatively named the Treaty of Alliance) was… (View Post)

I wouldn't call it a "landslide". The final share of the vote might be 51:48. It was fairly efficiently distributed in a 50:50 country, but even Kamala, a dire token candidate anointed… (View Post)