I feel out of step with all this talk about inheritance tax. I have never seen it as a ‘tax on death’. That is just an emotive label pushed by the newspapers and Tories as far as I can see. If anything it is a windfall tax on the inheritors.
As it happens I do [...]
Inheritance tax
October 10th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Politics
Tags: Taxation
Great Modern Buildings
October 10th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Life
Another thing I am enjoying this week is the Guardian’s series of pull-outs on great modern buildings - a great improvement on wallcharts of mushrooms or sharks. (I’ll reserve judgement on the booklets of speeches and interviews. I kept them all and just never got round to reading any of them)
So far they have done [...]
Tags: Buildings·Newspapers·Town Planning
House of cards
October 10th, 2007 · No Comments · Politics
I'm loving the re-run of House of Cards on BBC Four as pat of their "Why Democracy?" season, eventhough I do not normally go for political drama.
1990 seems like a long time ago now, probably because it is, but this series has aged remarkably well. I doubt if many drama series from 17 years [...]














