Michael Mosbacher
Publisher and Co-Editor at The Critic Magazine (UK)
Writer at theeditors.com
Associate Editor, Comment @Telegraph Co-founded Standpoint & The Critic magazines All views exclusively my own Contact: [email protected]
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6 days ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Michael Mosbacher
The Left saw these privatisations as a bribe; just as council house sales were discounted, shares were deliberately underpriced so the public could make a quick buck. And they are right in this analysis, but it was not an electoral bung but rather a strategy to change public attitudes. Perhaps the apotheosis of this campaign was the 1986 "Tell Sid" advertising campaign for the sale of British Gas. Its message was unapologetic: these flotations are for everyone.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Michael Mosbacher
Who are the rich? Are we talking about the plutocrat jetting between London, New York and Monaco who makes it onto the annual rich lists? Or are we thinking about the City banker whose annual bonus of £500,000 is enough to buy outright an average family home in the South East? Or are we in fact discussing the head of a state secondary school on £150,000?
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Michael Mosbacher
The top US marginal rate of federal income tax of 37pc is levelled on earnings of above $609,351, or £452,000. The American picture is complicated by state income taxes charged additionally. Marginal rates range from zero in Florida and eight other states to 13.3pc in California. It is not just the relatively laissez faire United States that is less punitive than us. In Germany, its top rate of 45pc is only levied on those earning €277,826, or £235,000, and above.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Michael Mosbacher
But its attitude to wealth and the rich displays a closer affinity to the moral judgments of stern church elders than to the strictures of Karl Marx. A secularised, bastardised version of Christian morality holds sway in the party, and indeed the wider Left. It sees riches as sinful, a moral failing that requires earthly retribution, or rather redistribution. But the quest for immodest terrestrial riches has arguably been the greatest engine of progress in human history.
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3 weeks ago |
theeditors.com | Michael Mosbacher
Does the BBC have a problem with Jews? That is the question many are asking about Britain’s esteemed state broadcaster. And that feeling has become increasingly prevalent in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel. The BBC is funded by a license fee, or tax, of £174.50 ($232) levied on households with a television. Non-payment of the fee is a criminal, rather than a merely civil, matter.
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Just not convinced by this. For a dog whistle to work, some people must recognise it. If Keir had said, "we must be mad, literally mad...." or "will have the whip hand" is one thing...but who associates "island of strangers" with Enoch Powell? Virtually no one
"Somebody did in Downing Street, I'm convinced of it." Baroness Foster believes that Number Ten would have known the similarity between the Prime Minister's language, and Enoch Powell's. #Newsnight https://t.co/KKmwOn9Rjh
Philanthropy is not a way of avoiding tax - it can reduce your tax bill to zero, but at a cost of twice what the tax would have been. Me defending family foundations in @Telegraph https://t.co/DHgPpsDkIw
Have now looked through numbers & not one Chancellor has got the votes they "should" have since 1949. One got more, (Schröder in 98). In all other 23 previous occasions, less. Often by larger margins than Merz. So this week was a big surprise, but shouldn't have been
The point is that German Chancellors are unusually elected by secret ballot of MPs - to ensure 1933 style intimidation cannot happen again - so MPs can vote against their party's candidate without consequence
