Simple fix to IHT. Cut it in half to 20% like most of our peers, and people will, if not gladly pay it, then not bother actively to avoid it. I strongly suspect IHT is a laffer-affected tax. (View Post)

Q1 2024 was 0.8% which works out as 3.3% annualised. But we notably lack the corporate profits distortion because of how transfer pricing now works since the CT rate went up to 25%. Cut it to 17% and… (View Post)

The right wing edgelord mind is incapable of understanding that atmospheric physics isn’t an Oxford Union debate but an actual thing. For balance (see Greta) it’s also true that the lefty perma-campa… (View Post)

Greta has I think become addicted to the fact of being Greta, and become more of a self-caricature in the process. It’s a shame, but she was always too far down the sanctimonious spectrum. Franchisin… (View Post)

The one that gets me morally confused is the question of deaths per meal. Is a juicy steak (let’s say 1% of a cow), or better still a chunk of braised whale (0.001%?), more ethical than a prawn cockt… (View Post)