Miles Saltiel Miles Saltiel

After the Rose Garden - 2 - Reliability

No-one knows where Trump’s on-again-off again tariffs are going to end up. The only certain thing is that the rest of the world is in for an overdose of once-bitten-twice-shy, scrabbling for new supply-chains and trade relations amid a general atmosphere of increased distrust.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Well, yes, we suppose it is the Home Counties

In our more dyspeptic moments we end up insisting that the Town and Country Planning Act, the entire idea of the Green Belt, is simply to make sure that none of these awful working class people, those proles, get to do anything in those rolling and admittedly lovely green acres of England.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Taking Birmingham private

It has been enthralling in a ghoulish way to watch Birmingham descend into a chaos of rat-riddled rubbish.

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Sebastian Charleton Sebastian Charleton

Get that pole up

An almost certainly mythical aptitude officer test set this problem.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Pothole policy

Spending on people usually commands more attention from the political process than does spending on things.

 

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

One of our favourite, if odd, ideas

As rather the originators of the privatisation idea - based upon the clear observation that the British State could not succeessfully squeeze a wet teabag - it is possible for people to question the idea.

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Preston Byrne Preston Byrne

AI, not Tariffs, is the Future of U.S. Economic Dominance

The Trump administration’s weird obsession with tariffs, which started as a serious policy that merited serious treatment, has gradually degenerated into something of a punch line among technologists and businesspeople alike over the last two weeks.

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