It also doesn't really make sense: is the Embassy/Consulate supposed to take in the applicant there and then? Embassies are not typically designed to have people living in them. And if the answe… (View Post)

If you think about it, if you want to smash militant Islam, then offering women the chance to escape it, is probably the best possible way. It's hard to have a successful society, if a significa… (View Post)

That is right, albeit with the proviso that the left and centre left vote is quite efficiently distributed: there simply aren't that many seats where the LibDems compete with Labour. I don'… (View Post)

92.5% tax rate. Jesus. That's worse than LA. (View Post)

It would also discourage excessive leverage. (Or rather remove the tax shield that makes debt so attractive.) (View Post)