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For concerned Americans: it is happening everywhere. Below are statistics about Britain: 72% of us feel people have got ruder over the last decade (OnePoll/BBC News online). And also less principled: only 50% of us now maintain it’s never justified to have an extra-marital affair. Back in 2000, 70% felt that way. Likewise only 20% now consider that it’s never justified to keep money …
During the ancien regime in France the rule was that if you were to be regarded as belonging to the noble class, your descendants had to engage in no trade and pay no taxes for at least three generations. The US Congress has taken a further step towards abolishing the inheritance tax, thus bringing closer …
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No other lobby group carries as much clout at Westminster as the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI). An astonishing 80% of Tory MPs, including many Cabinet ministers, are members of it. Which is why the CFI can call, “almost at will”, upon the PM, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary. The Palestinians, by contrast, …
In the US studies show that 2- 4% of death row prison inmates are probably innocent. DNA science is now helping to free some of the innocent. Death by lethal injection is a barbarous business: organs collapsing, the brain shutting down, and extreme pain. Even in America the use of the death penalty is …
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Immigrants to the UK wishing to become citizens have to pass an exam. This consists of 24 questions with a pass mark of 75%. After downloading a specimen list of typical questions from the Government website, I completed the test and failed. A number of my relations and friends also failed. We are all natural-born, …
