There is no way of avoiding the choices. Europe needs someone to step up. Merz is the best hope. We shall see if he has the balls and the brains to realise the world the world has changed. (View Post)

Ha Not allowing him to resign was an extraordinary act of pettiness. (View Post)

Can we not impose a tax on Americans, and use that to pay for the BBC? If every American resident paid just $2/month, that would more than cover the BBC's entire annual budget. (View Post)

It depends. There is a big difference between the fully loaded cost of oil, and the immediate cash cost. Russia's cash cost of oil is probably around $35. The fully loaded cost, when you include… (View Post)

One of the issues with tariffs that tends to get underplayed is that domestic firms will tend to raise their prices if foreign competitors get hit by tariffs. So: imagine that there are currently two… (View Post)