These are my links for March 23rd:
- Fall in tax payments sends warning to Darling – Times Online – In a downside the governmemt has to break the rules – so let’s stop pretending things are as they were in 2005
- Leader: Timid Brown must catch up with reality | Comment is free | The Observer – Keeping fingers crossed for a soft landing is questionable policy; as ideology, it is bankrupt.
- William Keegan: After excess comes fear – and then socialism, at least for the bankers | Business | The Observer – T The game is up. It is not the end of capitalism; but a particular form of financial capitalism is going outside and may be some time.
- Simon Caulkin: Capitalism’s too important to be left to capitalists | Business | The Observer – If bad rules got us into this mess, better ones – which go with rather than against the grain of humanity, community and the physical realities of the planet – can get us out again.
- Will Hutton: If the City won’t put its house in order, politicians must | Comment is free | The Observer – Today’s lack of political criticism cannot last much longer – there is too much popular and even business demand for change. For the party capable of breaking the deadlock, the payback will be huge.
- Outside View: The end of capitalism as we know it? – Business Comment, Business – Independent.co.uk – Yes, is the answer
- FT.com / Home UK / UK – Case for investment bonds for higher-rate taxpayers – Th article disguises the real issue – that the 5% withdrawals are not taxable – so are not deemed remittances by the non-doms seeking to have less than £2,000 of offshore income. Close the loophole, now!
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