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  • Well, it’s not final. I remember a time - in Belgium I think - when a utility vehicle was defined as having no backseats for passengers. Scores of people registered Porsches and other obviously passenger cars with the backseats removed as tax-exempt minivans.

    Belgium put a stop to that and suddenly, all those backseat-less sportscars got taxed like they ought to be. Just like that, retroactively.

    The same thing can happen with your vroom-vroom-loving neighbor very quickly.


  • They do. But that’s not a reason so take advantage of people in need - which is the pharma industry’s business model where healthcare costs aren’t regulated like in the US.

    The pharma industry is in this very unhealthy position of making a profit from people who desperately need their wares. Exactly like plumbers on a weekend: the pharma industry can - and will, left to their own device - charge you any insane amount they want for your treatment that keeps you alive, like a plumber will charge you any insane amount to fix that leak before the whole living room is flooded.

    That’s why it desperately needs to be regulated. If a Big Pharma exec thinks it’s tough to turn a profit in a country, that country is doing its job correctly.








  • He said 50 illegally imported electric off-road motorcycles were destined for sale in his county.

    Claire Davies, from Suffolk Trading Standards, advised people to only buy electric vehicles from “reputable dealers” and if prices “look too good to be true, they probably are”.

    Slapping “off-road” or “for use on private properties” is a well-know way of legally importing and reselling vehicles that the seller knows perfectly well will be used illegally on the road. And it’s not new either: it’s been a known trick for decades.

    As for the buyers of those vehicles, they know perfectly well what they’re buying. Nobody who buys an electric scooter that goes at 50 mph is surprised to find out it’s not road-legal…