Tag: Margaret Thatcher
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What’s a fiscal black hole, and how do you fix it?

It’s what you get when the magic money-tree suffers a crop failure. I don’t know whether our old MP Amber Rudd was the first one to claim “there is no magic money tree”, but she was most definitely one of those stashing their income in tax havens whilst telling us there was no magic solution…
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We are getting somewhere near to having that debate!

Come on politicians, come on councillors, teachers and GPs – do the reading, do the thinking, take responsibility… Here is a brief summary of an excellent article in the current edition of The Spectator, ‘The true cause of No10’s conversion therapy muddle‘: The government just shocked everyone by throwing out a plan to pass a…
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The Mystery of the Magic Money Tree and the Pension Pot

Or – who nicked our retirement, and how did they do it?