This describes much of British civic life now. Sub-contracting, bureaucracy, and sheer rentierism makes everyday life a misery. (View Post)

Nobody who has experienced an American supermarket wants to allow their god-awful food into the UK. (View Post)

I live in New York, so you can scrub that off your list. Yes, I believe the food is better in California. But I don’t live there, so I can’t be sure. The effect of zero tariffs on US produce would si… (View Post)

Who *is* the real William? He is perhaps the most mysterious of PB’s perma-trolls. (View Post)

American produce is uniformly low quality, compared to Europe, with the exception of seafood (oysters and such). I’m not talking about GMO, hydrogenated corn oil, or anything like that. I’m just sayi… (View Post)