It's time to stop turning the clocks back spectator.co.uk/article/the-… via @spectator
Why limit excess profits tax to companies making profits from gas prices? There’s already a long list who’ve made millions out of COVID 19.
Taxing financial winners from coronavirus to pay for the crisis – lessons from WW1 theconversation.com/taxing-f… via @ConversationUK
Kamala Harris 'hates' Boris and Joe Biden 'remembers PM's "racist" Obama remark' metro.co.uk/2020/11/08/kamal… via @MetroUK
Taxing financial winners from coronavirus to pay for the crisis – lessons from WW1 theconversation.com/taxing-f… via @ConversationUK
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Govts can cope with being disliked (Mrs Thatcher’s did) but when mocking and ridiculing goes mainstream it is fatal.
Why did Dom have to drive back? Is his wife unable to drive? Needing to practise driving in the locality is pathetic excuse
No-deal Brexit could put vulnerable people at risk, officials warn | Brexit | The Guardian theguardian.com/politics/201…
Just William story “The May King” from 1922 so relevant today.
“William was frankly bored. School always bored him. He disliked facts, and he disliked being tied down to detail, and he disliked answering questions. As a politician, a great future would have lain before him.”
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"The history of #FinancialEducation in the #UK" by @JRutterford is now available on @WSBI_ESBG
The paper had been presented during the #FinancialHistory workshop organised with @sectorceca & @FUNCASES in 2017
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Forced to stand down - but his announcement makes it sound like a victory. To summarise, he can go - secure in the knowledge what those who voted no confidence will come to see the error of their ways and salute the genius of his transformation agenda. nitter.gq/oubucu/status/98475234…
BREAKING NEWS. @OpenUniversity Vice-Chancellor announces he is standing down. #reclaimtheOU nitter.gq/OpenUniversity/status/…
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Cutting hundreds of teaching posts and stopping a third of all courses is just ‘re-prioritising’ say Open University boss who faces revolt by lecturers goo.gl/vkPQeo
Estimating the net present value (+ or -) of individual ministers, a very good use for the theory of finance politicshome.com/news/uk/tra…
I’ve got two passports: one British, one French , do the stats imply that ditching the British one and moving to France give me an extra 3 or more years of life expectancy. No brainer !! nitter.gq/equalitytrust/status/9…
SHOCKING: "The slowdown in life expectancy for the average person in Britain is worse than anything seen since the early 1890s, and no other country in Europe has experienced as rapid a slowdown as the UK." Extreme UK #inequality revealed by @dannydorling ow.ly/kBcX30iXBux
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Today marks 100 years since the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which allowed women over 30 who owned property to vote for the very first time. The act also allowed all men over 21, regardless of property, to vote.
French is the diplomatic language, not English. French uses conditional tenses and the subjunctive, English the present and future tenses. « If you do that, I will... » rather than « If you were to do that, I might.. » Less likely to lead to war. nitter.gq/theeconomist/status/96…
Forget Chinese or Hindi. If you want to learn a language which is truly global, learn French econ.st/2BQdSUg