If you’re someone like a small-town gardener, taking £25 from five or six people per day, you’re way more likely to just stop reporting income. Everyone’s paying you in cash anyway. (View Post)

And it’s a short step from there to the US system of appointing explicitly political judges, where in so many cases just the name of the judge and the nature of the charge can tell you the verdict in… (View Post)

So, is the jury trials story supposed to distract from the Budget, or are they hoping that everyone will be ignoring it by lunchtime? (View Post)

The only way they’re stopping “offshore” betting, is to formally sanction the companies as if they were Russian or Iranian, and start fining banks which allow payments made to them. At which point mi… (View Post)

So fiddling while Rome burns? The only real big revenue earner there is theoretically the pension salary sacrifice stuff, aiming to drag a few hundred thousand people kicking and screaming into that … (View Post)