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Making Tax Digital – a Disaster in the Making or a Brilliant Innovation?
Making Tax Digital is set to hit sole traders and landlords from 2026, promising more admin, costs and chaos than clarity, and Guy de la Bédoyère is already throwing in the towel rather than get swamped.
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Trump’s Genius is He Understands There Are No Ordinary People
Donald Trump's genius is that he understands there are no ordinary people, says Joanna Gray. British politicians would do well to copy his refusal to talk down to the public.
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A Closed Shop And Ludicrous Demands – One Week Of Tube Strikes
Is it any wonder Tube drivers are striking again when Sadiq Khan gave them a £30m bribe last time they walked out? Sallust reviews a week of disruption and the depressing fact that it's going to happen again and again.
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Ukraine Must Lose The War, Then Win The Peace
With Ukraine realists sounding like Putin apologists while idealists inhabit a fantasy world where Ukraine can defeat Russia, Clive Pinder suggests a middle way: Kyiv must accept the war is lost, but win the peace.
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Fiddling the GDP Figures?
Labour keeps bragging about growth, but David Craig reckons that the ONS's dubious new method of counting overseas output as part of the UK's GDP is giving a false impression of economic vitality.
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A Letter to Angela Rayner From a London Leaseholder
A leaseholder of a London flat has written an open letter to Angela Rayner saying she may come to regret not doing more to empower leaseholders, given she's now a flat owner herself.
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Why Does Everything in Britain End Up Like An Episode Of Dad’s Army?
Why does almost nothing get done properly in Britain? It's because they follow one simple law, says Guy de la Bédoyère: every organisation, committee and project will inevitably degenerate into a scene from Dad's Army.
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Middle England is Becoming Poor
Middle England is becoming poor, says Joanna Gray. This became undeniable after all the guests at a recent dinner party admitted they had switched from Waitrose to Aldi and Reiss to Primark.
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How an Essex Grocer Became Britain’s Most Influential Political Figure
Tom Skinner, a former Apprentice contestant and all-round Essex man, is enjoying a moment in the political limelight after being invited to a barbecue in the Cotswolds by JD Vance.
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Reclaiming the Beauty of the Spheres
AI is a distraction from what it means to be truly human, says Dr David Bell. We should aim for far greater things, find again the vastness of the jewelled sky and the light that only shines in another's eye.
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