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)

I agree it's worth waiting to get right. I can't quite decide if this is the best approach or if we need a society-wide change in our thinking on the role of technology for children and tee… (View Post)

We (Europe) only really have one direct military threat in the medium-term: Russia. China is outside our sphere of influence. If they invade Taiwan or Russia or Mongolia, we're not going to cond… (View Post)