You can’t expect producers to produce at a marginal loss: they’ll just shut down instead. (View Post)

The LFG crowd appear to be making an impact, even if the government is studiously ignoring them in public. Can’t be seen to have your policy proposals coming from some no-name annoyance of an academi… (View Post)

You’re quite right: they should have eliminated council tax & stamp duty at the same time & replaced them with a 0.75% property tax. (Replace 0.75% with figure necessary to make up the defici… (View Post)

The unifying character here is the desire to lick the boot of authority. Authoritarians will latch onto to whichever self appointed “strong leader” is most appealing at a given time & Putin fits … (View Post)

Wiktionary says the etymology is from the latin for weasel: furrittum or “little thief”. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ferret (View Post)