BY JOHN DREWRY Donald Trump has apparently expressed the thought that maybe Federal taxation is unnecessary altogether, and the economist Martin Armstrong agrees with him. It’s not such a crazy idea, and I’ve had a version of this in my mind for some years. Here’s mine for the UK. Replace all taxes with an automatic licence fee for using the King’s currency “You don’t understand, … Continue reading A Licence Fee Worth Paying
BY PAUL T HORGAN Surely one of the most cloyingly cringeworthy sights on British Television this year has to be the BBC’s Newsnight hosting a children’s choir marking the 75th anniversary of the creation of the NHS. All the young singers were clad in identical t-shirts as if they were part of some staatsjugend organisation. Some bureaucrat must have seen the 1980s music act St … Continue reading The NHS & BBC Are Falling
BY ANDREW GIBSON Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves appears to have mis-read or wilfully misrepresented a report to conjure up over a billion pounds for a Labour Government to spend, and the establishment press have seemingly been taken in. Country Squire is not so accepting. In response to the recent Autumn Statement, Reeves expressed outrage that the Government had not acted against “non-doms”, whom she … Continue reading Non-Doms Not Dumb
