If you want to see where Tory plans to shrink the state will lead, look no further than Barnet. The Tory-run London suburb is in the process of shrinking the number of town hall staff from 3,200 to as few as 332. It is outsourcing so many of its services to the £7bn multinational company …
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In 2005, the agency that collects state income tax in California began a pilot programme called ReadyReturn (later called CalFile), a voluntary, ‘simple, easy-to-use service that offers free, direct to government e-filing’, similar to the British system. It saved the people who used it money and time, and was projected to save the state half …
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Since the mainstream media are not reporting this, I thought it might be of interest to readers to complete what I wrote yesterday. After its battle in Dabiq, the caliphate will go on to sack Istanbul, destroy Israel and continue to expand, since expansion is the essential duty of the Caliph. At some point an …
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In the Monday edition of the New York Times Paul Krugman, deviating from his usual subject of economics, said that the objective of ISIS was to terrorize non-believers. It’s true that the “Caliphate” has a holy duty to terrorize its enemies, but this is not the main objective. In the March edition of Atlantic Magazine, …
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In the 19th Century Lord Acton said that the most important responsibility of government was to protect the liberties of citizens. Fast forward to the early 21st Century and a committee of EU ministers published a joint letter in the International Herald Tribune which stated that government’s prime task was to protect the “safety of …
