Budget company tax cut a hard sell politically
Apr 14, 2016 02:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
After a GST increase to finance big income tax cuts disappeared as a viable option for the May budget, attention centred on reducing the 30% company tax rate. But, assuming the government goes ahead with a cut for...
Mr Nice, drug trafficking – and how Britain now grows its own weed
Apr 14, 2016 02:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The celebrated Oxford-educated cannabis smuggler, Howard Marks aka Mr Nice is no longer with us. He devoted his early career to international cannabis trafficking (mainly into the US), which eventually brought him a...
Celebrities and politicians tell us their deepest, darkest secrets. Why?
Apr 14, 2016 02:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment Politics
Public figures sharing private information is the norm nowadays. Our thirst for information, combined with the wonders of the internet and lax approaches to privacy, is creating a perfect storm. News outlets, websites...
What 17th-century politics can teach us about the Brexit debate
Apr 14, 2016 02:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
If you heard someone claim that a powerful and unaccountable institution was trying to take control of the law away from the British parliament, you might assume you were talking to a Brexit campaigner in 2016. But you...
Apr 14, 2016 02:01 am UTC| Insights & Views
Ever since German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, tried to persuade a reluctant Churchill to join the nascent European project in the years immediately following World War II, successive German leaders have acknowledged the...
China's e-commerce laws not a 'crackdown' but closing a loophole
Apr 14, 2016 01:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Business
Australian businesses need to be more China-savvy in interpreting changes in government regulations, such as the recently introduced e-commerce laws. These laws are not so much a crackdown, as closing a loop-hole in...
What your choice of degree means for your future earnings
Apr 14, 2016 01:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The mass expansion of higher education, the arrival of high fees in English and Welsh universities, the ongoing technology revolution and the Great Recession have pushed and pulled the graduate labour market in contrasting...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects