Most people think that taxes should be paid by other people. (View Post)

You are very kind to assume that all the racists have brains they bother to use. Still, all those who assumed that this story turned on immigration (they know who they are) were sort of right. (View Post)

Especially if we were negotiating the cost of hiring the Tesco negotiators with the Tesco negotiators. (There must be an updated Gilbert and Sullivan plot in there somewhere.) (View Post)

Because the effect of means-testing the state pension is that most people won't find it worth saving for their retirement at all. That just stores up a massive social and economic problem for a few d… (View Post)

And that's a useful signal to the market. If the cost of cleaning up after doing X is high, maybe you don't want to do X after all. (And remember, not cleaning up after yourself isn't really a money-… (View Post)