It's entirely possible that the government are doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, but they do seem to have grasped that we can't tax our way to prosperity, and we won't get neces… (View Post)

Even with these tax cuts the UK will still be a relatively highly taxed economy. I don't know what the right cuts are but I'm sure that paying even more tax would not be the answer. So I�… (View Post)

Drafting people who really, really don't want to fight must be part of Putin's "genius" that I am never going to understand. Of course we ought to consider the alternative possibi… (View Post)

You should be quite skeptical about any simulated nuclear war. A lot of old models only calculated immediate deaths from radiation and blast, plus later deaths due to fallout, and all but dismissed d… (View Post)

Given Ukraine's industrial and scientific contributions to Soviet strategic weapons programmes they had a pretty good claim to a share of them. (View Post)