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Tax And Relative Dimensions In Space
From: Forward Planning To: All departments Subject: Future developments Dum de dum, dummer de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum, whoo hoo! What…
2 Feb 2012

Rosie and me
Have you noticed that people who own dogs choose breeds that look like them? Or is it the other way…
30 Jan 2012

What's a trillion?
Britain (or, at that time, England) discovered the idea of National Debt in 1694, when the government borrowed £1.2 million…
25 Jan 2012

Nudge, nudge
Almost six years ago (that’s about 40 years for me) I wrote an article called Pavlovian tax, which pointed out…
13 Jan 2012

IHT is good
Grant Thornton have just sent us a report about some research they have carried out with homeowners about IHT. Surprisingly…
16 Dec 2011

Soul response
Good news for music lovers in today's Independent: Adele's mega-selling album 21 won't ever be streamed online. On learning this morning…
28 Oct 2011

Who's fooling who?
Here we go again. The Guardian, among other newspapers, today claims investment bank Goldman Sachs ‘was let off £10 million in…
12 Oct 2011

Hacking away
I read some garbage, I do. Sometimes it’s necessary: the Daily Mail and Daily Express are among the newspapers covered…
6 Sep 2011

Excuse fail
This blog entry was written several days ago. Shunning toilet breaks, fire alarms and other ephemera, I spent goodly time…
2 Sep 2011

HMRC fans of 'The Apprentice'?
HMRC have just issued a news release reminding students that they need to fill in a P38(S) to ensure that…
20 Jul 2011
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