I’ve been going down the list of tax cuts that John Redwood is proposing. Scrapping inheritance tax, lowering corporation tax, raising the super tax threshold, restricting capital gains… to be brutally honest, I regard all of these as good things in principle, but even leaving aside the affordability issue, how can they be said to… Continue reading Those Redwood tax cuts – a question of priorities
Category: politics and life
Gideonics
Jonathan Calder points us to a fascinatingly revealing quote from Gideon Osborne: “Of course we want a very dynamic and successful City of London. But Britain cannot just be the City of London and then 50-odd million people living off the back of those who work in financial services.” This line has clearly been carefully… Continue reading Gideonics
Ah! That delicate frisson of A-level result lesbionics!
I’ve just realised that its taken me until 4pm on A-level results day before seeing my first A-level result blonde (on the front cover of the Evening Standard). A quick skip around the news websites: The BBC has four multi-ethnic girls jumping for joy. Only one of them, however, might be blonde (hard to tell).… Continue reading Ah! That delicate frisson of A-level result lesbionics!