In the last financial year, 2014, Facebook paid less tax than an average UK worker would pay. The social network’s UK operation paid £4,327 in corporation tax. An average UK worker earning £26,500 would pay £5,393, a combination of income tax and national insurance payments. Meanwhile they spent more than £35m (!) giving their UK-based …
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.” (Montaigne) Thus can a person who thinks himself fit to be President of the United States can actually propose building a huge wall to keep out Mexicans when there are more Mexicans leaving the country than entering it (overwhelmed by possible examples, I pick …
A study of 186 hunter-gatherer cultures found that when men are involved in the care of their own infants the cultures do not make war. This greater involvement of men with their babies may eventually contribute to a more peaceful world. It would, if true of “advanced” nations, be very much in the spirit of …
The United States is in the middle of a huge consolidation of big companies in a wide range of industries: beer, health insurance, food and air travel to mention just four industries. Only four airlines now control 70% of air travel; the biggest five commercial banks hold half the nation’s bank assets; Expedia- Orbitz and …
There is something I don’t understand, and maybe someone can enlighten me? The ISIS plotters and bombers have unrestricted access to the internet. The master minds disaffect them on the web, encourage them to plot and kill on the web and there is free information on the web as to how to make bombs. In a …
