A poll earlier this year showed that 32% of those polled believe it’s acceptable to legally avoid paying tax. Most of these are probably accountants. (YouGov/The Sunday Times) The UK Treasury and The Inland Revenue have been failing to prevent some of the 398 different tax reliefs being exploited by people making false claims. The cost …
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“For the media, climate change is Kryptonite. It fails to tick almost every one of the boxes that defines a story. It’s not new: it’s part of the background noise of 21st century life. It lacks a hard deadline. There seem to be summits coming up, but there have been summits before. The crisis also …
Dogs win our hearts by staring soulfully into our eyes. Researchers have discovered that when dogs have prolonged eye-to-eye contact with their owners, it causes a rush – in both man, and his best friend – of oxytocin, the “love hormone” believed to promote maternal-infant bonding. For the study, reported in the journal Science, animal …
The good news: Costa Rica has set a new world record by becoming the first country to rely solely on renewable energy for 75 consecutive days. Costa Rica derives four-fifths of its energy from hydroelectric sources – but has been able to dispense with fossil fuels entirely this year, owing to the heavy rain that …
Studies at the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research suggest that many of our traits are more than 50% inherited, including obedience to authority, vulnerability to stress and risk-seeking. Even in things like religion and politics our choices are much more determined by our genes than we think. However, in recent years faith in …
