I wouldn't be at all surprised if HMRC actually lose money, and shrink the economy, with this madness Lionel Shriver has written a piece in the Spec saying that it was MTD that finally persuaded… (View Post)

Do Beijing as well, and get the amazing high speed trains between! The history in Beijing is stupendous, the summer and winter palaces, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall nearby. It's just not a… (View Post)

That's what I'm doing. Turning myself into a Limited Company. Not so as to avoid tax, just to avoid this insanely onerous quarterly return crap. How do they expect me to do that as I travel… (View Post)

I'm only here one more night! But I've been before several times. It's a great city, probably my favourite in China, even including Hong Kong It has sass, spice and that splendid new s… (View Post)

IIRC polls regularly show that the Chinese are some of the more optimistic people on the planet. Not THE happiest, but certainly a lot less glum than Europeans and even Americans I dunno. I feel like… (View Post)