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The most fundamental grievance is that Cadbury, acquired by Kraft in 2010 (later rebranded as Mondelez International), has altered its recipes in ways that compromise taste and quality. Critics note that less milk in the Dairy Milk recipe makes the chocolate taste more oily, ruining the nostalgic flavour for many fans. This was underscored symbo...

The proposal is for a licensed micro-transit system for school children, similar in spirit to how school buses work in the US but operating at a finer-grained, more flexible level.

The core concept is that small licensed operators would run routes in residential areas using micro or minibuses or people-carrie...

We insist that this is true, shocking as the very thought is. It is possible for tax rates to be too high. Too high in that sense that the tax does not, in fact, achieve its aim:

Proponents of UK withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the European Court of Human Rights make a strong case on several grounds.

The first and obvious gain is of Parliamentary sovereignty. The core argument is democratic legitimacy. Rulings from the Strasbourg court can override A...

This is something that always puzzles us. Why is it that when people tout the benefits of their favourite policy they always, but always, tell us of the costs of their favourite policy