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It’s official: high earners delayed their bonuses to take advantage of Cameron’s 50p tax cut
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) yesterday made it official: high earners delayed their bonuses to take advantage of Cameron’s top rate tax cut.
Millions in Africa do not have access to morphine and suffer unnecessary preventable pain
Palliation care could benefit millions of Africans.
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‘BBC presenters have deeply held left-wing political views’. Do they? That’s not what the evidence suggests
If anyone should be complaining about BBC bias it is the left rather than the right.
NHS loses 445 nurses in a month
The NHS lost 445 nurses in the last month, meaning that there are now 5,890 less nurses than there were in May 2010.
What if borrowing was going to be a lot lower than predicted?
Could borrowing be a lot lower by the election than anyone now expects?
Most people will have bigger concerns than GDP this Friday
On Friday the latest GDP figures will be released and will almost certainly show that the recovery is well underway, with growth of perhaps as much as 1 per cent for the third quarter of the year. Provided the predictionstest
In a digital age, radical media must adapt
We must innovate and experiment, combining print and digital in new ways.
Preventing climate change and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin
The recent energy price hikes show what happens when you become reliant on increasingly expensive fossil fuels bought and sold to each other by six megalithic firms.
Are ‘green taxes’ really to blame for rising energy bills?
Trevor Kavanagh rolls out a familiar trope in today’s Sun: that so-called green taxes are to blame for rising energy bills. They aren’t.