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LATEST: Think you’re paying less tax now? The withdrawal of Working and Child Tax Credits leaves low earners paying a 73% marginal tax rate, and medium earners paying even more
...And this government says it cuts taxes for poor working households!
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Drug firm Novartis tried to 'scupper' trials of a cheaper version of eye medicine
Has Austerity caused the UK’s first decline in life expectancy in 20 years?
Kellogg's effectively paid no corporation tax in the UK in 2013, +more stories...
YOU'RE FIRED?! We are already nearly the most easily fired people in the developed world
Only the US and Canada make it easier, says the OECD’s Worker Protection Index
EYE OPENER: Housing Equity Withdrawal took off in 1979. Since then almost all UK growth has suspiciously equalled the amount we took out. Looks like it’s pensions next
Osborne’s new rules allow you to spend your entire pension pot now. Same mistake, different pot
DID YOU KNOW? MPs are getting a 10% pay hike in May, to £74k
...and in 2010, 137 MPs put family members on parliament's payroll. Now it's soared to 167
GOOD DEBT
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MPs' 2nd JOBS
TAX IS THEFT?!
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RICKETS IS BACK
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UK: A PRISONER OF CUTS
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Friday, 29 October 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
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Vince Cable to investigate Wayne Rooney?
Chris and KJ get their cities mixed...
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Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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Miserly banks are at it again
Chris and Fee mull over the latest banking scan...
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Monday, 25 October 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
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Women bear the brunt of spending cuts
KJ and Chris reckon it's not a good time to be a woman or a ch...
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Friday, 22 October 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
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The poor: Who cares?
The spending review will hit the poor hardest. Surely someone out there cares...
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Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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A fine time to be a banker
Chris and Fee lament the FSA's weakn...
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Monday, 18 October 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
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Public sector workers and the 'big society'
Fee and KJ get to grips with Cameron's joined-up think...
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Friday, 15 October 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
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Pension poser
Fee and KJ solve the pensions cri...
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Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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Tories tearing holes in Tories
Chris, Fee and KJ give their take on the benefit c...
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Monday, 11 October 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
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education
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Tuition fees rise causes a stir
Fee and Chris get ready for higher tuition f...
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Friday, 8 October 2010
Friday, October 08, 2010
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Taking civil liberties
Chris tries to invoke some Dunkirk spirit among senior civil servants to avert pension c...
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Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
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Cheesed off by supermarket tactics
Fee educates Chris on the perils of bulk-buy...
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Monday, 4 October 2010
Monday, October 04, 2010
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Light touch policing on the streets
Fee, Chris and KJ discuss George Osborne's cuts to polic...
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Friday, 1 October 2010
Friday, October 01, 2010
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Disillusioned with Labour
Chris suspects foul play after an email from ...
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