Yes, I wondered yesterday whether the story about appointing Mandelson as a sleazeball to handle a sleazeball might not be true. The implications being they he was appointed because Starmer is actual… (View Post)

The thing is that the state has realised for centuries that it's an aid to commerce if trade is regulated so that buyers can trust what they're buying from sellers. Hence the standardisatio… (View Post)

I was thinking more of things like abolishing leasehold, or regulating car finance - things that would reduce the extent to which people are scammed by companies. You could even consider changing the… (View Post)

I wonder how that is even legal. I know trading standards aren't in a position to take Amazon on, but the buyer is not being supplied with the product they've paid for. It should be the sim… (View Post)

I think there are lots of things that a government can do that don't involve directly spending money. Secondly, in the podcast they make the point that the markets aren't concerned with the… (View Post)