You can understand where the Russian ultras on Telegram are coming from when they say nothing less than an all out war of annihilation and total victory will ever bring the Ukrainian Nazis to heel, I… (View Post)

Good morning from Southern Burgundy, where I’ve woken up to the stink of forest fires in Gironde, several hundred miles away. And a fine layer of ash on the car and garden table. (View Post)

Laffer curves indisputably exist, but the problem is there are many of them: at different rates for different taxes, and at different times. Some are more predictable than others: HMT is able to esti… (View Post)

Scandinavian countries have their fair share of tax exiles of course, but they’ve embraced something that seems politically impossible in the UK: high and broad based taxation of the majority of the … (View Post)

If only we could accelerate the transition away from fossil fuel dependency, eh Daily Telegraph? (View Post)