Men will literally declare martial law before going to therapy

Brilliant story about a reported "determined" farmer, struggling in "very tough" conditions, protesting a new tax, who turns out to have spent his career as a stockbroker including a spell as chair of the London Stock Exchange.

Torsten Bell@torstenbell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

Britain has seen no wage growth for 15 years - while remaining the most unequal large economy in Europe. This is what stagnation looks like. We need to end it www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/an-e...

If you want to read something absolutely gob-smacking, this should do it

Jonah Goodman · A National Evil

At the turn of the 20th century, the Swiss were plagued by strange, interlinked medical conditions, which existed...

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