Doesn’t this just sprinkle on some people’s chips?
It appears that The Spirit Level’s much vaunted finding about inequality - that it makes us all miserable in and of itself - is not, quite, wholly true:
Seems entirely fair to us
Apparently Uber is allowed to trade under the same terms as all other taxi hailing operations:
As Oxfam points out governments are just blowing the money
“Inequality is a deliberate policy choice. Despite record wealth at the top, public wealth is stagnating, even declining, and debt distress is growing,” said Oxfam’s international executive director, Amitabh Behar, in a statement.
Sure, let’s just give homeless people money
Homeless people have been given £2,000 lump sum payments to spend on whatever they want.
Such an appalling thing to have to worry about
The UK is poised for an influx of cheap Chinese imports that could bring down inflation amid the fallout from Donald Trump’s global trade war, leading economists have said.
How absolute is absolute poverty then?
Well, to be honest about this, it depends upon who is doing the defining.
Perhaps “The 1976 Consensus”?
We might need a little help here for that title might not quite work - we understand there’s a popular beat combo that could be confused with. But the idea itself works we think.
Marmite scented deodorant is the very point of free markets
For those unblessed with that winning lottery ticket in life of being born British “Marmite” is boiled yeast with added salt.
But what if the people don’t want to do it?
Experts have criticised a “lost decade” of progress on parental rights after Guardian research suggested that fewer than one in 60 public sector workers are sharing leave with their partners when they have a baby.
To remind that, yes, Warren Buffett is wrong
Even Homer nods etc: he has "never known anyone that wouldn't invest in something they otherwise thought was attractive because of the tax".
The perils of the collective over the individual
Royal Mail’s new pension scheme has fallen 5pc since it launched, raising questions over the Government’s plans to merge more of workers’ pension savings into one investment.