Who’s still trading with Iran? Can only be China, Russia, North Korea, Cuba. Only China of those should be too worried about the effect on US trade. (View Post)

A full-sized glider can do the same, given a windy enough day. Been there, done that! (View Post)

California is about to propose something similar on unrealised capital gains, which is likely to result in good news for Texas and Florida. The Minnesota fraud story would be rather interesting now, … (View Post)

Yes, apart from a few rural seats we get all the results within 12 hours of the close of polls, and the change of power can happen the same day. The contrast with the US elections, is stark, especial… (View Post)

Yes, for all that we critisise politics the UK is actually very good at organising elections themselves. We generally wake up in the morning after a general election, with a pretty good idea of what’… (View Post)