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To the Financial Times While it is heartwarming to see the concern of Simon Walker of the Institute of Directors for other countries struggling to rebuild their economies, perhaps he may like to address a problem closer to home. The UK has twice as many managers (which includes directors) in proportion to total employment as …
Among the most eye-catching measures of the British government’s recent budget is an inheritance tax (IHT) giveaway. IHT is currently levied at 40% on assets above £325,000 for a single person, or £650,000 for a married couple. But the addition of a new “family home allowance”, worth £175,000 per person, means that couples may soon …
Jim Scanlon is a retired American History professor. The following is an edited version of a letter sent to a friend of mine and a reader of this blog. I thought it was an interesting take on Thomas Jefferson and the military. Thomas Jefferson frequently expressed the view that “The earth belongs to the living …
You can’t go to a shop, art gallery, restaurant or hospital without being handed a form and asked to rate your “experience” on an idiotic “strongly agree/strongly disagree” scale. Businesses never used to pester us this way: they would work out if they were doing a good job by – “radical concept, this” – talking …
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As the number of smokers drops, the remaining smokers actually smoke less and are more likely to quit, according to a study published in the journal Tobacco Control. The study results suggest that current tobacco control policies already in place are working, partly owing to the clean indoor air legislation, media campaigns that aimed to de-normalize smoking and raised …
