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Tag: Margaret Thatcher

22.11.2017 Technology

A little Twitter spat with Andrew Neil

Just under 48 hours ago I spotted a tweet from the BBC’s well known political journalist Andrew Neil – someone retweeted it into my timeline: https://x.com/afneil/status/932742227218059265 Oh. The biggest political crisis since late 1940s? Really? Berlin Wall going up, anyone?

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MTT montage - based on CC / Flickr image
10.02.2010 EU Politics / UK Politics

If the Tobin Tax is to become the Robin Hood Tax, shouldn’t we rename VAT the Margaret Thatcher Tax?

Over the last 48 hours there has been quite a buzz on Twitter, Facebook and on various left-ish blogs about a new campaign (campaign site here) in the UK for a so-called Robin Hood Tax. What the hell is a

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