It’s very simple - a Chancellor has two choices. Tax and spend. Or not spend and not tax. The markets would be pretty ok if the government said we are putting up every tax to fund the NHS. Yes, you t… (View Post)

To the header - yes, 100%. The problem is, to me, a moral and philosophical one. The morally bankrupt “leaders” promote each other to the top. And for all their vapid verbiage about rights and duties… (View Post)

Apple gets the phones made for a tiny sum. Flogs them for a literal thousand. Parks the money offshore to avoid tax, as much as possible. It’s not just MAGA that doesn’t love that model - read some R… (View Post)

And they are extremely reliant on the US for training of their pilots for CATOBAR operations. (View Post)

Having worked in the belly of the beast - an alt-bank specialising in the gambling sector - yeah. They like to talk about “whales” - but many of the big spenders are really addicts destroying their l… (View Post)