The IFS report explains it thus: However, looking at a snapshot of the patterns of spending, VAT paid and income in the population at any given moment is misleading, because incomes are volatile and … (View Post)

It's very difficult to find such data. As a result of the financial crash VAT was cut from 17.5% to 15% and then subsequently increased to 20%. There is some data from around 2008/2011 relating to th… (View Post)

So Russian forces have been decimated? (View Post)

The Budapest Memoradum, however it probably does not go as far as would be required. https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000280401fbb https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS… (View Post)

Biden has made his decision. Ketanji Brown Jackson https://www.whitehouse.gov/kbj/ (View Post)