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Written by Netsmith   
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Yet more evidence that the government doesn't seem to have got the hang of this tax reform thing  yet. You're supposed to be making it simpler!

Can you say "producer capture of the regulators"?

Something of a turn up for the books: someone has found something useful to do with all those CCTV cameras.

A film recommendation, or, what two South Asian stoners can tell us about the American ideal.

It's an interesting question: if unions really do increase productivity and or profits, then why don't companies welcome them with open arms?

Of interest perhaps only to rugger buggers: Richard Hill has played his last first class game.

And finally, some clue as to what is wrong with the education system.

 

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Curbing CCTV
written by Alleagra Studena, May 13, 2008
Surely this is the answer to excessive surveillance in the UK? If we all demand footage of ourselves in public places under the Data Protection Act the system will implode. I suppose the response to that would be to make the cost of the request prohibitive.
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written by Mark Wadsworth, May 13, 2008
That first one appears to be superseded by events, The Badger has just upped the personal allowance by £600.

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