If we could just bring in a touch of that awful reality stuff to those arguing for a Wealth Tax.

During the early years of the New South Wales colony, rum became a prevalent currency due to shortages in coinage.

A land link, bridge or tunnel, connecting Northern Ireland and Scotland would enable land transport, road, rail, or both, between Southern Ireland, Northern Ireland, the UK and Continental Europe.

One of our constant - consistent - insistences is that a value of markets and capitalism is that they kill mistakes.

We’re old enough to remember that book and also young enough to remember that book.

But here we are, Patriotic Millionaires not grasping the first thing about the tax system.

On Friday, Tesla’s board of directors rolled out a pay package proposal for CEO Elon Musk that could, if he plays his cars* right, turn the billionaire into the world’s first trillionaire.

Many people receiving state benefits prefer to think of them as coming from ‘the universe,’ or some impersonal source rather than from taxpayers’ contributions.

Or, to be more boringly accurate, this report does not show that the US subsidises fossil fuels by $31 billion a year.

There is a case for suggesting that people seek to gain the maximum output for the lowest possible input.

When the environment around them changes then humans change their behaviour. You know, sorry and all that but it’s true:

Although the killjoys in the Department of Health and Social Care campaign against drinking and, indeed, everything else that we might enjoy (tobacco, sugar, fatty foods, etc.), there’s a strong case in favour of moderate wine drinking, based on what has been studied in nutrition, epidemiology, and cultural history.