All the signs suggest that leaving the EU will cause economic hurt, yet voting intentions over Brexit remain unaltered. Why? The answer lies in a novel written 60 years ago by a Labour Party grandee. In “The Rise of the Meritocracy”, Michael Young envisioned a dystopian future polarised between a class of winners (exam-passers) and …
Poets now despise the rhyme, Or that’s the affectation. But nonsense is as nonsense does And what is worse Than bad blank verse? Gibberish strung a word a line, Conforming to the fashion? The wish being father to the thought, It’s promptly Found To Be Profound. Rhymes outdated? That’s just rot! Some can rhyme, and …
A quarter of young British adults now live with their parents, more than at any time since records began in 1966. According to a new study by the London School of Economics, adult children who return to the family home after a period away – often at university – cause a significant decline in their …
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Could capping top incomes tackle our rising inequality more effectively than conventional approaches to narrowing our vast economic divides? Some while ago the Program on Inequality at the Institute for Policy Studies published “The Case for A Maximum Wage”, by Sam Pizzigati, an IPS associate fellow and the co-editor of Inequality.org. Pizzigati docusses how egalitarians …
1. “On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food.” 2. “They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax.” 3. “We went on holiday to Spain and had …
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