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Decoding The Planners

CRACKING the human genetic code is kindergarten stuff compared to cracking this country's planning regime, as the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest medical research charity,......

Edison's Leading Light

A FRIEND of mine has made enough money out of education to own a runner in the Derby, so it can be a good business. Benno Schmidt thinks so, too. He gave up running Yale to......

Monte Carlo Or Bust

IF I had bet my old age on a policy from Standard Life, I would vote (so I said before the poll) for leaving things alone. The mem- bers have bet that way, too. They voted......

Shopping Around

UNFAIR and harmful are words often used about their competitors by people who can- not compete. It is harder than it was, though, for high-tax countries to make their writs run......

Order Of Release

TI-IIS week's good cause is War Loan. There must still be some patriotic holders who have stuck to it through thin and thinner. Sixty-eight years ago — on 30 June 1932 Neville......

City And Suburban

The tax haven in Paris sets out to bully a microdot in the South Seas CHRISTOPHER FILDES I denounce the Organisation for Econo- mic Co-operation and Development. It is a tax......