Lower taxes are rather better. They let the thrifty and the aspirational keep more of their own money to save, and they increase the reward to saving by allowing them to keep more of the interest the… (View Post)

The Swiss and Norwegian situations are very different. The EU have explicitly ruled out a Swiss solution about twenty thousand times (they're trying to bully the Swiss into abandoning it too) and the… (View Post)

Why is it bad that the Monarchy is advancing this country's interests by wielding its soft power? That is what it is there for. The former republican Trotskyite/Corbyn/God knows what Starmer should t… (View Post)

That reminds me of Putin claiming he simply HAS to steal four provinces of Ukraine because he is bound by Russia's constitution which he himself changed and then ratified in referenda he elaborately … (View Post)

I wonder if Trump is going for a Nobel Economics Prize as well as the Nobel Peace Prize? He seems about as likely to get one as the other. And about as probable as winning the Literature Prize for hi… (View Post)