And then we get into "if the UK (rich and fairly small numbers of asylum seekers in the grand scheme of things- after all, we're pretty much at the end of the line) can do that, why can… (View Post)

And that's because we don't want to pay taxes. (OK, there's a bit more to it than that, but that's the root of the issue. As a nation, there are lots of things we want- higher edu… (View Post)

Nobody knows; it's not a policy announcement on the normal sense, after all. But given how movies shade seamlessly into streaming into TV shows, and given that Trump likes tariffs, it's not… (View Post)

However, the currency that matters in the Trump administration is loyalty. The way to get on in it is to praise him, and the loonier Trump's actions, the more important it is that you praise him… (View Post)

Unfortunately, we're not yet a serious country. After all, the faster-than-inflation rises in pensions over the last couple of years are comfortably more than the WFA. In the old days, this woul… (View Post)