If you fire somebody on the spot in the heat of the moment I suspect your chances at a tribunal are not great if the employee feels like taking you to one, in almost all circumstances... (View Post)

I agree that that's probably a good plan for them (better than faffing about with a million low-return tax tweaks, and closer to their principles than drastic spending cuts), and that it would be pos… (View Post)

On the other hand about 5 billion of that was apparently grant money Intel had apparently already been awarded under the CHIPS act but not yet paid -- so to some extent this is the government retrosp… (View Post)

I agree; I feel like this polling suggests Starmer could be being a bit less cautious about the closer ties than he seems to think he need to be, though. (View Post)

I just finished DeLong's economic history of the 20th century, _Slouching Towards Utopia_, and he reckons it all went wrong with the turn towards neoliberalism in the 1980s... (He also thinks the US … (View Post)