Anyone attacking Khan in such terms is simply outing themselves as a racist. I live and work in London, and the main negative adjective I would use for him is being invisible. Not really doing anythi… (View Post)

The fact that elections are run by states, and not federally, has also I think been a key protection against quickly overturning democratic norms. Sure, we have increased gerrymandering. But as @rcs1… (View Post)

I hope the EU succeeds in the coming days in overruling objections from Hungary in permanently freezing the ~€200bn of Russian funds, allowing them to move to using them to fund Ukraine via a 'l… (View Post)

20% tax on social media and government adverts on the harms of social media? Maybe they should be forced to show examples of harm at the top of the page like cigarette packets. "Steve lost all h… (View Post)

Sure. Or to reduce income tax. Or VAT. We tax so many things which are not negative externalities extremely highly. Yet shy away from heavily taxing something which clearly does harm to many in socie… (View Post)