I've witnessed an interesting case study in getting infrastructure done these last 2 weeks in Turkey, particularly on the most recent stretch in the Erdogan heartland of the Black Sea region. Th… (View Post)

The right answer is to equalise income tax and CGT rates, but bring back indexation so that people are not simply taxed on inflation, and introduce long term tapering as France does so that the actua… (View Post)

Scrapping CGT is a surefire way to create utter chaos in our tax system. Want to see trillions of taxable income suddenly magically become capital gains just like that? Then abolish CGT. No amount of… (View Post)

Which is one of the problems with our system. Someone seems to be doing a good job in one area of specialism? Great, let's move them out of that into something completely different on which they… (View Post)

I think a/c in bedrooms but not downstairs is a nice compromise. Partly because the heat is always worse upstairs, but also because one downside of ubiquitous air con - which is really noticeable in … (View Post)