Farmers need to stop talking nonsense. I thought it worth sharing an anecdote based upon a BBC Northern Ireland radio discussion I took part in
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I am aware I touched on the issue of inheritance tax on farms yesterday, but I felt it was worth another go. There is a
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As the Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s offshore financial centres must fall in behind plans to stop “dirty money” by publishing registers of corporate ownership,
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The argument about farmers having to pay inheritance tax at half the normal rate on transfers of their property that they might make on death
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Trump says he will make America great again, but if he cuts $2 trillion from the US Federal budget of $6.7 trillion – as he
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I missed the fact that the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee published a report entitled ‘Recipe for health: a plan to fix
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In October 2008, as that year’s financial crisis began to unfold, the Observer’s political editor, Andrew Rawnsley, looked back at what Gordon Brown had said
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I am bored by politicians who pretend that they are from the left and right, and who either worship markets or pretend that the state
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It was a pochard sort of day at Welney Bird Reserve this morning: The above is a male, one of the many hundreds there today.
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