A pill made from the leaves of the olive tree could be a powerful weapon in the fight against heart disease, scientists say. According to r...

It appears that they have it in mind to tax property, which is bad for us as we still have no income from society for anything we do (or cou...

One of the principles of a fair and sensible tax system, says Philip Collins [in The Times ], should be to avoid taxing effort and work, and...

In the Sunday Telegraph magazine, Seven , there is a review of a book called The Genius Factory by David Plotz. Scouting around for a her...

Ministers want to end the head-start given to rich children, whose parents land them great internships and jobs ‘by having a word down the t...

A new non-means-tested pension scheme, to start about 2015, is supposed to provide support greater than the current basic state pension and ...

From time to time someone complains that the state pension, together with the means-tested part, is becoming less and less adequate to cover...

Thomas Jefferson (one of the Founding Fathers of the United States) said, in effect, that the first duty of a government was not to let the ...

Apparently, if meltdown cannot be averted at one of the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan, radioactive material will spew up into the atmosp...

The transfer of resources from populations with higher IQs to those with lower IQs continues. Herewith two examples: (1) £900 of higher uni...