God, Labour really are in a full scale rout at the moment, aren’t they? The tax system should reward married couples, a cabinet minister has said. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Andy Burnham told the Daily Telegraph: “It’s not wrong that the tax system should recognise commitment and marriage.” He did not advocate specific changes… Continue reading Barbie boy calls for tax cuts for married couples
Neo-Feudalism: back with a vengeance
Polly Toynbee mourned the death of social democracy in the Guardian yesterday which, based on her definition, is not something I will be shedding many tears over. He kneejerk reaction that what Brown should have done instead of raising the IHT threshold was to increase income tax on people with incomes above £100,000 was akin… Continue reading Neo-Feudalism: back with a vengeance
It’s sex, Jim, but not as we know it
I, for one, welcome our new asexual overlords… Humans and most other types of organism reproduce sexually. The union of sperm and eggs results in two copies (or a pair) of genetic instructions within a cell, one copy inherited from each parent. This produces two nearly identical copies of each gene in each cell, and… Continue reading It’s sex, Jim, but not as we know it