Why the royal wedding is a recipe for wider economic succ...
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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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RIP-OFF NEWS ROUND-UP, OUR PICK OF THE LAST WEEK'S MEDIA
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...
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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
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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
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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
PENSION CRAZY
BANKSTER PAY
MPs' 2nd JOBS
TAX IS THEFT?!
FAILING SCHOOLS
AFFORDABLE NHS
1m WORK IN POVERTY
JAIL THE ACCOUNTANTS
RICKETS IS BACK
UN-NATIONALISED RAIL
LOW WAGE BRITAIN
BANK OF MUM & DAD
UK: A PRISONER OF CUTS
TAXING LIES
WATER CANNON BORIS
UNIVERSAL C.. OCKUP
FULL TIME JOBS? WHERE!
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Sunday, 24 April 2011
The banks have been comprehensively routed in the courts, and been publicly exposed in the most blatant stinking mis-selling of overpriced insurance to people who didn’t want it, didn’t understand it, and to people who weren’t even eligible to claim on it. So why are the banks going to draw out their humiliation with an appeal over Payment Protection Insurance (PPI)? The reason has little to do with PPI itself, and everything to do with something much more fundamental to the industry. The banks need to protect their right to do the wrong thing.Regulation...
Monday, 18 April 2011
Sunday, 17 April 2011
As you approach retirement, having spent the final years of your career dragging your aging bones into office to be bossed around by juveniles three decades younger than you, a letter will land on your doormat. The letter will contain a number, which may look rather large, and an offer which probably looks stunningly small.I’d say £250,000 was a lot of money. If I’d won that in the lottery I’d get a mention in the local paper. I’d be thinking of a new car, a holiday or three, a few pairs of handmade shoes, and a mixed case of really good single...
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Monday, 11 April 2011
Sunday, 10 April 2011
The government and the pension industry are continually preaching to us that we are saving too little. They deploy vast advertising and advisory budgets to get this particular gospel across to us. You’ll be doomed if you don’t save, they tell us, but there is a nagging suspicion that we will be doomed if we do save too. It would be unfair to say government and pension fund managers are entirely in cahoots. Each have their own separate reasoning for their common cause:a) The government, so it can transfer...
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Reality: Barclays admitted that of the £2billion taxes they took credit for, only £113m was corporation tax. The rest was taxes paid by their staff - the vast majority of whom would remain in the UK even if Barclays shifted its HQ overseas. The Independent Banking Commission's interim report, in April 2011, stated that only £3billion of financial services tax contribution can easily be moved out of the UK. That is less than 1% of UK tax takin...
Sunday, 3 April 2011
There are few actions under the sky that cannot be spun and woven into a tissue of good intentions. Even the most wicked action can have a benevolent reason behind it. Whipping a horse may be to prove it is still a good runner, and save it from the glue factory. Inflicting pain and death on laboratory animals may result in the development of medical products and procedures to improve health, or test cosmetics which make your loved ones less…well…ugly. The political decision to massacre a civilian population may save more lives by the bloody example...
