That would be Jerry Reed's "You make it, They take it" Income tax man’s a-knockin’ at my door And yellin’ money, money (money-money-money) Income tax man’s a-yellin’ for some more Money, money (money-money-money) [Chorus] ‘Cause when you make it they take it (money-money-money) You make it they take it (money-money-money) You make it they ta-a-a-ke it, they...

Look, I know he's come to deliver us from evil and all that, but really, Dave, sod off: Tory leader David Cameron has defended expenses claims for his second home and said he would do the job for "half the money, twice the money or no money". "Frankly, I love this job because I love doing public service, working for my constituents, trying to hold the government to account, hopefully one day leadi...

A former employee of John Prescott has been paid 'more than £50,000' of taxpayers' money to keep quiet.

Aristotle was right: you can’t make money out of money Amazing really: entirely missing the point that we all did start making money around 1750 when we did realise that as money has a time value you can indeed make money out of money. Next week, Ritchie’s GP wife lectures us on why Galen is

Nanny's chums in Scotland have discovered another way of wasting taxpayers' money, by publishing a 140 page "diversity handbook" and distributing it to 7000 members of the police. Nothing wrong with that, in theory, if the book contains some genuine insights and addresses known issues that are negatively impacting policing then it may well be money well spent. The trouble is the book doe...

The BBC’s adaptation of Martin Amis’s classic 1984 novel has none of the book’s zing, insight or fast satire.

Money, it can’t buy you love and nor does it appear that it can buy you success as demonstrated by Andy Kerr’s register of interest page. In his ultimately unsuccessful quest to become the leader of the Labour MSP group at Holyrood, the East Kilbride MSP, and party spokesman on Finance, amassed an impressive £13,725 in donations to his fighting fund compared to the £10,951....

There is no government money. There is taxpayers' money and there is borrowed money. Obnoxious wastrels such as Charlie Gilmour can riot but tax receipts of £548bn and public expenditures of £697bn means his misplaced sense of entitlement is unaffordable.There is no fairy gold. The money belongs to the people.

Money, money, money... An article by Mark Buchanan in New Scientist looks at attitudes to the stuff and at research on these attitudes, and finds it strange that money should be associated with hang-ups and obsessions, with 'passion, stress and...

It wasn't, in truth, the most elevating or entertaining debate I have witnessed in the Scottish Parliament. However, it wasn't as hideous as some had feared. MSPs were discussing their own money: not their salaries but the allowances which assist them to carry out their job by, for example, employing support staff. It was, mercifully, brief: just a little more than half an hour. But it still scarc...