Winston Churchill was notoriously poor at school. It's almost as if other skills than academic success matter in a leader. To an extent Kemi's poor A Level maths may well be because of shif… (View Post)

Simply make personal income tax allowances transferable, and from birth for dependent children, so a family of 4 living together have 4 personal allowances to set off against income. (View Post)

The cost depends on what level the allowance is set. It could be fiscally neutral if reduced appropriately. (View Post)

Yes, but the compensation went to slave owners not to the slaves. Indeed it gave them capital at a critical time in the development of the Industrial Revolution, putting the former owners in the driv… (View Post)

Nothing new there. I remember having a valuable camera stolen in a burglary in 1991, I checked the secondhand camera shops in town, and one of them had it. It had been brought in by the thief and the… (View Post)