Any British citizen who bases his or her vote on the "flash" official national income figures showing that output rose by 0.1 per cent in the final quarter of 2009 ought to be disenfranchised, writes Samuel Brittan
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More than 280,000 people will pay the new 50p rate of income tax, official figures disclosed.
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The European Commission is considering proposals for a publicly-funded income insurance scheme for farmers as part of reforms to the bloc's farm policy from 2013, the EU's top agriculture official said yesterday (21 June).
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EurActiv on 22nd Jun 2010 (via euractiv.com)
Well, yes, like the idea but….. This new social economy will challenge liberal market capitalism and its ideology of neoliberalism. It will introduce a citizen’s income (CI), an unconditional, non-withdrawable income payable to each individual as a right of citizenship. To meet minimum income standards, it will be worth £10,000 per annum. A partial citizen’s income
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TimWorstall on 20th Oct 2009 (via timworstall.com)
He has been transformed from Just Gordon to Flash Gordon, lecturing the nations of the world on how to run their economies even fitting in advice to the BBC on how to handle the Ross-Brand debacle. On Thursday he may reinvent himself again, as the new Comeback Kid.
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Hundreds of activists opposed to a third runway at Heathrow have staged a "flash mob" protest at Terminal Five.
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Regulators told a Senate committee hearing that they were closely examining the role of high speed computer programs in the market turmoil this month, known as the "flash crash"
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