I must say that in my retail pharmacy days I liked VAT. Apart from anything else it required one's books to be kept up to date. And Purchase Tax, which preceded it and which could be changed overnigh… (View Post)

One of the first things the Tories did after winning the 1979 election was to almost double the standard rate of VAT from 8% to 15%. (View Post)

Never assume anything about a person's background. Only comment if you know. (View Post)

I think I learned that when I was about seven. I wasn't quite sure about the significance of small, or indeed absent, balls at the time though. (View Post)

In 2028 Trump will be 82. So, were he to fiddle the system to run again he'd be 86 when he competed his term. Things, bad things, often happen in that and indeed the previous decade of one's life. As… (View Post)