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The Cynical VoluntaristPolicy and other Musings from a Disillusioned Pragmatist.
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An Establishment Religion: The BBC Mandate and the Authentication of Reality
The Government would like you to know that it is against disinformation. Strip the announcement of its therapeutic vocabulary, though, and a plainer instrument survives the wash: the state proposes to define which sources of news are canoni...
Twice Is Circumstance...
‘The man of system... is apt to be very wise in his own conceit.’ - Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The EV charging industry has discovered sovereign risk, at last. In a letter to the Prime Minister, the trade body ChargeUK warn...
Three Ways to Get Capital Gains Tax Wrong
Part One: How the Tax Actually Works
Before examining the arguments, it is worth being precise about what Capital Gains Tax is, how it is calculated, and how it differs from income tax. The confusion in the public debate is, in large pa...
The Tax Unit
There is a Telegraph piece making the rounds. You may have seen it. The headline reads: ‘An AI jobs bloodbath could wipe out income tax.’ The subheading: ‘The Chancellor can only hope that pessimistic forecasts of artificial intelligence’s...
THE ABATTOIR'S CALCULUS
N.B - I’ve been unable to find a carrier for this, and so, in a similar spirit to last time, ask all readers to share this as widely as they think would be productive.
The dominant frameworks for discussing Iranian nuclear armament share...
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