The VAT thing on churches shows a few things. 1. Reeves is quite politically stupid 2. The Treasury is full of horrible little gradgrinds 3. Labour just don’t have the impulse to give a shit about Br… (View Post)

I always chuckle when @Luckyguy1983 calls other posters naive, stupid, or obsessive. (View Post)

Noah Smith, who writes a popular economics blog, speculates that Trump etc realise that the U.S. have actually LOST the battle for technical supremacy with China (aka Cold War 2) and are therefore gu… (View Post)

Zeihan keeps talking about how the UK has no choice but to accept American agri-slop. Which is bollocks, and kind of undermines his whole oeuvre. (View Post)

Vance makes an interesting argument. The contention I think is Ukraine cannot win, and the only thing getting in the way of a conclusion to the war therefore is Ukraine’s (or even just Zelensky’s) se… (View Post)