No. A more mundane reason to do with binary truncation. There are some good arguments for moving to a base 12 system, but it would make a lot of computer arithmetic simpler if we used a base 16 numbe… (View Post)

There is, yes. I haven't looked at it in detail to judge how well it works. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/averaging-for-creators-of-literary-or-artistic-works-hs234-self-assessment-… (View Post)

I'm not making an argument about the politicians, but about wider society. I'm picking up on your statement that, "Your man in the street wouldn’t normally be that bothered by somebody… (View Post)

And maybe some mortgage-style regulation on income multiples. (View Post)

Maybe it has changed, but I had the impression that in Britain most people choose to obey the rules, that this is one reason why we're such curtain-twitchers anxious to ensure that everyone else… (View Post)