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Next coronavirus stimulus check might not be a direct payment and could be a ‘tax credit to learn new skills’
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Elderly betrayed by delay on care fee cap: Now thousands more will have to sell homes
Next week’s funding paper will lay out several controversial options for raising the money, such as subjecting pensioners to National Insurance, imposing a further levy on inheritance tax, or means-testing benefits that are currently universal, such as winter fuel payments, free eye tests and TV licenses. … [Read more...] about Elderly betrayed by delay on care fee cap: Now thousands more will have to sell homes
The 10 best revolutionaries
Maximilien Robespierre Among the historical figures after whom the French name boulevards and squares, one is inexplicably rare: the father of their republic and all modern revolutionary politics. History has given Robespierre a bad rap for his role in what it knows as the Terror. A great orator with a brilliant mind, but an ascetic man, Robespierre drove the great French Revolution, opposing Girondin revolutionary factions that disastrously declared war on the rest of Europe. The wars, and betrayal by others, required Robespierre to defend that revolution with a device proposed along with his friend Joseph-Ignace Guillotin as a humane alternative to the breaking wheel, after the pair had unsuccessfully attempted to abolish the death penalty. Robespierre was guillotined without trial after a coup d’etat on 28 July 1794. … [Read more...] about The 10 best revolutionaries
Aston Martin boss to step down in wake of COVID-19 sales hit
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