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Beating Up The Rich
In amongst the knob gags and poo jokes, someone occasionally writes something serious on Twitter. The other day someone wrote this: The top 10% of earners pay more than 50% of all income tax. When can...
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The Tax Delusion
Have you ever met a climate change denier? I wonder why they don’t believe in global warming. Using some fairly basic maths you can calculate the Earth’s surface temperature assuming no greenhouse...
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The Greatest Democracy on Earth
The United States is often marketed as the Greatest Democracy on Earth. I’m not sure I agree. A couple of months ago there was a lot of worry in the global markets that the US was about to default on...
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Economic Bloodletting
In older times bloodletting was a common medical practice. A doctor would treat a poorly patient by pumping out a few glugs of blood in the hope that it would cure them. The patient would then decline...
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Depression
Do you remember that time that Alistair Darling did that terribly apolitical thing of trying to tell the truth and said there was a recession coming that would be the worst since the Great Depression?...
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Lies, Damned Lies and Austerity
Today David Cameron once again reiterated his intention to continue down the path of austerity in order to sort out the UK’s economy. David does this a lot and continually comes back to his belief that...
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The Voice of a Siren
Do you remember Going for Gold with Henry Kelly? No? Come on, did you never have a school-day off sick in the early 90′s? In case you haven’t watched it, someone has helpfully posted a whole episode on...
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