Tag: Victorian

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What taxes are for: a lesson from the past

I went to see Inside Job, a terrifying film, last night: how the ‘bankers’ (that actually seems to be a euphemism) looted their own companies, bribing, via jobs and consultancies, the (non-)regulators to make sure that a) they got away with it; and b) nothing changed so that they can

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First [past the] post

Well, I’ve joined the 21st century. And I’m not sure I like it. The cheesy font I have chosen for the header to this post is called ‘Jane Austen’. But would Jane have recognized it? I beg to differ. She wouldn’t have recognized the census, either (before her time). As

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