If you have simpler tax rules then these sorts of situations become less likely to occur. Politicians really should simplify tax rules out of self-interest, besides the potential benefit to everyone … (View Post)

They've been told that Britain is a crime-ridden hellhole with an authoritarian government using the jackboots of its police force to enforce tyranny. I can understand them finding it confusing … (View Post)

You don't necessarily have to spend more mopping up knock-on crises if you are prepared to endure them. I don't buy the argument that it isn't possible. I hope that there's a bett… (View Post)

The advantage of online crime - like inciting violence on twitter - is that the evidence is easy to collect and the perpetrators are less likely to resist arrest. There's no conspiracy to suppre… (View Post)

This is true, but the transitions are messy. Many of the ex-miners never got other jobs, because they didn't have the skills, experience, training or lived in the wrong place. (View Post)