Times Opinion today | too much money, too little tax, German humour & Bletchley Park
Money money money
Is £40,000 a year enough to live the good life? Not for many of us, Philip Collins finds – even though Keynes thought we’d be earning this and working 25-hour weeks by now
Forty grand certainly isn’t enough for Jimmy Carr. But now he’s been outed and has apologised, other tax avoiders should come clean, The Times says
Could Google or Tesco fix our obsolete tax system? William Rees-Mogg says “yes”
Ref!
Ahead of tonight’s Germany v Greece Euro 2012 clash, German journalist Clemens Wergin advises Greeks to be more like their football team: German-flavoured
Code breaker
Ben Macintyre on the genius of one of Bletchley Park’s finest, Alan Turing: “He cycled around in a gas mask, possibly on account of hay fever, and chained his mug to a radiator to prevent anyone else using it”
More
Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer, Jared Genser, on freedom fighting for the prisoners of conscience
The return of O-levels: the Education Secretary’s big exams plan could score him an A…but there’s potential for an F, The Times says
Can you spell “diaphragm”? If not – CUL8R
(Times Opinion, Friday June 22, 2012)
Times Opinion today | Wednesday June 20, 2012
Scandal:
Legality clashes with morality as David Aaronovitch examines tax avoidance in light of The Times’s outing of Jimmy Carr and Take That
Watergate has brought us a “hysterical atmosphere of constant scandal in which it becomes impossible to discriminate properly between nonsense and wrongdoing,” says Daniel Finkelstein
Also:
Alice Thomson jumps to the defence of GPs as the “specialist generalists” we need to dish out specialist services (they’re still greedy for striking, though)
We need to patch up our churches and keep them fit for use by all in the community, says Nicholas Holtam, a trustee of the National Churches Trust
20-year-old Vicky Fowler Thunders about her difficulty finding work experience, let alone paid work
The Times says…
Aung San Suu Kyi “not only represents a better future for Burma, but testifies to the resilience of the human spirit in extreme adversity”
The Government’s Civil Service reforms don’t resolve the accountability question: ministers don’t have enough say over the appointment of senior civil servants
Great things have been achieved since the first Rio Conference on Sustainable Development
