I’m greatly enjoying this outbreak of “I agree with Ed?” on PB. NB. The major problem with the French nuclear deterrent is that their submarine launched ICBMs are (I believe) too thicc (as the kids w… (View Post)

You don’t cut Stamp Duty because you think it will bring house prices down. You cut it because massive transaction taxes on people moving house are a terrible drag on your economy. Stamp Duty is the … (View Post)

They just shipped their only dedicated mine sweepers back from the gulf last month. Supposedly the capability is replaced by the littoral combat ship. The complete lack of planning that went into thi… (View Post)

More likely to be some kind of caching error in an intermediate system between the backend SQL database (probably running on some IBM mainframe system or similar high availability / reliability setup… (View Post)

Maybe they’ll finally have the excuse they need to rip up their “no new income taxes” promises & actually do something concrete to fix the insane way we’re taxing work? (Yes, this will probably i… (View Post)