We have tied ourselves to the philosophy/religion of globalisation. And done so in the most extreme way. It is great in theory but often bloody awful in practice. (View Post)

One of the issues with UK ideas about a wealth tax or LVT is that they look at other countries, see they have a wealth tax but don't look at the detail. Norway has a wealth tax of 1% on everythi… (View Post)

As I have mentioned before, the EU many moons ago did a study on the impact of TGV services in France on both local and national economies. They found that whilst there was a very small increase in G… (View Post)

British Gas & Octopus mostly With some smaller generators as well. (View Post)

You pass a law which prevents foreign ownership. Canada does it for selected industries. A number of EU countries including Germany and Italy do it for Non-EU ownership of certain sectors. And of cou… (View Post)