By far the best solution is to let them work and sort out their own accommodation, like all other functioning adults. That keeps them off the streets and increases GDP and tax revenue. If they can't … (View Post)

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)