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New worldwide tax on financial transactions?

08 11 2009 Brown red-faced after tax plan snub. Mr Brown floated the possibility of a new tax worldwide on financial transactions only to face an embarrassing rebuff in having it publicly rejected by the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />United States and other major...

opinion by Professor | 1 day ago
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BRITAIN – To become a Nation of Shopkeepers?.

03 11 2009 Extra £30bn for bailed out banks. The Treasury has announced the injection of some £25.5 billion into The Royal Bank of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Scotland and some £5.7 billion into The Lloyds Banking Group, this new money being necessary in complying...

opinion by Professor | 5 days ago
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New Labour: The real costs to the Public

00 00 2004 National Offender Management Information System (C-NOMIS) began – at some £<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />234m. 00 07 2007 Project was two years behind schedule. costs increase to some £690m - no idea what £161m was used for before October 2007. 12 03...

opinion by Professor | 6 days ago
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Political correctness ignoring science and taxpayers?.

News 31 10 2009 : Home Secretary Alan Johnson sacks drugs adviser. Alan Johnson has come under fire after forcing the Government's chief drugs adviser Professor David Nutt (Chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD)) to resign over highlighting a need that...

opinion by Professor | 1 wk ago
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Electorial Voting changes to save money?.

News 30 10 2009: Fury over election voting plan. In the need to cut Public expenditure the Treasury has enlisted help from the Ministry of Justice in identifying where potential savings can be made to slash some £65 million from the cost of running elections. Such...

opinion by Professor | 1 wk ago
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Uk - Careers advice for seven-year-olds

News 26 10 2009: Careers advice for seven-year-olds. Primary school children are to get careers advice from the age of seven under a new scheme to encourage them to develop aspirations early on in life. Under Schools Secretary Ed Balls, primaries will offer career-related...

opinion by Professor | 2 wks ago
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UK - Office of the Public Guardian (OPG)

News 25 10 2009: Secret court seizes some £3.2bn from the elderly. A secret court is seizing the assets of thousands of elderly and mentally impaired people and turning control of their lives over to the State -...

opinion by Professor | 2 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago
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Deserving British Soldiers.

News 24 10 2009: Soldier blasts leaders over trust. A serving soldier has accused politicians of abusing the trust of the Army and serving soldiers. Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, who is facing a court martial for refusing to return to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1...

opinion by Professor | 2 wks ago
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Whose terrorising who & the need for evidence to protect oneself

As the blame/revenue collection Technologies “kick-in”, perhaps more rigorously given a climate of recession, what protection have you got against authority given its profiling/storage mechanisms as to DNA, finger prints, CCTV footage, lie detectors, phone and e-mail...

opinion by Professor | 2 wks ago
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The end of UK middle class benefits in the UK?

News 22 10 2009: Call to end middle class benefits. A think-tan named “Reform” says payments including maternity pay, child benefit, the winter fuel allowance and TV licences for the elderly could be scrapped to avoid higher taxes. It says that the <?xml:namespace...

opinion by Professor | 2 wks ago
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The end of UK middle class benefits in the UK?

News 22 10 2009: Call to end middle class benefits. A think-tan named “Reform” says payments including maternity pay, child benefit, the winter fuel allowance and TV licences for the elderly could be scrapped to avoid higher taxes. It says that the UK spends some £31bn...

opinion by Professor | 2 wks ago
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Timeline - UK education

News 2009 : To save on Public Expenditure the UK Gov now accepts that Schools should regulate themselves!. Opinion: At every New UK Pre-Political Election the theme remains the same – Changes to Education, changes to Health, changes to the Law/Justice System; about the...

opinion by Professor | 2 wks ago
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Lockerbie Bombing Timeline

News 20 10 2009 Lockerbie bomb claim 'misleading'. SNP's Christine Grahame responds to a Freedom of Information inquiry which states that a fragment of bomb timer used in the atrocity left <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Scotland twice before the trial of Abdelbasset...

opinion by Professor | 2 wks ago
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Royal mail timeline

News 19 10 2009: Last-ditch talks in Royal Mail postal dispute A Royal Mail boss said that a 30,000-strong recruitment blitz was not designed to "break" a union as last-ditch talks aimed at preventing this week's crippling strikes went ahead. Operations director Paul...

opinion by Professor | 3 wks ago
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