False dichotomy. You want an individual or business who has taken sensible steps not to pay more tax than they reasonably need to, but not strayed into tax planning that runs counter to the intent of… (View Post)

I’ve dealt with civil servants across multiple governments. Often the same people. They do exactly as you’d hope: focus on carrying out the programme of the government of the day. (View Post)

They’ll replace them with apparatchiks and yes-men who don’t have a clue how to do the job. Half of them will realise this and just do what their junior civil servants suggest, meaning more of the sa… (View Post)

They might, but Trump and friends won’t. (View Post)

My view is that every little helps, the impact on emissions would be very marginal, and keeping the industry going for a bit might scrape some barnacles off the boat and allow us to keep making meani… (View Post)