One of the causes of Britain's poor economic performance since the great financial crash has been suggested to be that the economy is carrying large numbers of inefficient unproductive businesse… (View Post)

I really don't think this is about the author of the policy. It's about the rate. And generally I don't recall other tourist taxes discriminating on the basis of citizenship, normally … (View Post)

$100 per person is an eff off rate. Possible that is the intent, to dissuade US tourism to reduce the risk of Americans speaking to people who live in free democratic countries. (View Post)

I think the other point I would make is that making a decision on guilt or innocence in a trial is often hard. If it was likely to be easy than either the prosecution would be abandoned, or the defen… (View Post)

The uncertainty in a trial is rarely over interpretation of the law, but on what happened. (View Post)