But at the top rates, the distortion is reversed, because the 39.35% dividend tax, when added to 25% corporate tax, is higher than the 47% income tax+NI. So it's complicated. There's a very strong ar… (View Post)

Also a possible way to repatriate small boat people, if a little kinetic for modern tastes. (View Post)

Here is a good video about Russian gunpowder factories going up in smoke - well, spectacular explosions, really - which could be as decisive for the war as the oil refineries, but gets less publicity… (View Post)

I don't think so. Their position on Europe in the coalition was utterly bizarre, having run on a manifesto proposing an in/out referendum at the next significant change in the 2010 election, and bein… (View Post)

That would benefit the economy as family farms are generally extremely low productivity, even for a low productivity sector like farming. Very small and small farms account for 27% of farmed land but… (View Post)