Taxes…how much?!

What with various incidents in the news and my upcoming annual bonus (strictly performance related) I’ve been thinking about tax of late. This is normally something I avoid thinking about as the numbers normally annoy me no end, and from the few years where I had to do self assessments the paper work is even worse. With the Occupy crowd being forced to realise the difference between a right to protest and trespass, it was beholden on our glorious government to carry on with the Bank bashing. It seems that if your a bank keeping the law isn’t enough if … Continue reading

Modern comparitive hypocrisy

Travelling into town to partake of a few sherberts in a drinking house of my acquaintance, I happened to pick up the Evening Standard. Being an infrequent reader of the printed press, there was much that caught my eye, not least the very different emphasis on news presented therein compared to what I stumble across within my daily RSS feeds. However it was a fortuitous day to read a paper as Mr Huhne had just been charged, and a certain detail within that article did make my wonder (just as it did Fausty). Mt Huhne is a multi millionaire, though … Continue reading

Spare a thought for Freddie

“I suspect the quietude we are currently seeing on (the Fred Goodwin) front is down to neither side of the political debate being able to claim crowing rights in the matter…” Continue reading