Michael Mosbacher
Publisher and Co-Editor at The Critic Magazine (UK)
Writer at theeditors.com
Associate Comment Editor @Telegraph Co-founded Standpoint & The Critic magazines All views exclusively my own Contact: [email protected]
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4 days ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Michael Mosbacher
When donations are made to family charitable trusts, rather than what are generally understood as charities, the story becomes more intriguing. The donor will not lose full control of the funds. Set up a charitable trust with your nearest and dearest on the board, then donate £1m. HMRC will top this up with £250,000 and your tax bill will go down by £312,500 (as surely anyone who can afford to donate £1m will be an additional rate taxpayer).
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1 week ago |
open.substack.com | Michael Mosbacher
This month’s local government elections in England, alongside a parliamentary by-election (what would be called a special election in the U.S.), did indeed, as previewed here April 28, turn out to be the most significant for perhaps a generation. They were a test for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK to see if it could match its poll numbers in an actual vote — and it proved it could.
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Michael Mosbacher
Academic remuneration, it is true, will never compare favourably with that of bankers or hedge fund managers. But it is not terrible. Professorial pay scales at University College London start at just under £80,000, but most will be earning rather more. Rigid pay spines are now a thing of the past in the senior ranks of academia. Individual negotiations have created much larger discrepancies than there once were.
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2 weeks ago |
theeditors.com | Michael Mosbacher
British local-government elections aren’t typically of great interest to American readers. But this week’s vote, scheduled for Thursday, May 1 — the first big electoral test of Keir Starmer’s Labour government since they came to office last July — is worth paying attention to. It will be the first concrete test of whether Nigel Farage’s Reform party has become a serious player, and if UK politics is realigning. A brilliant communicator, Farage was a central player in Britain’s Brexit debates.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Michael Mosbacher
Walking to The Telegraph each morning, I am reminded that even the finest creations have their own natural lifespan and eventually reach obsolescence. The red London phone box is a globally recognised instant symbol of our capital city. Yet who needs public phones today? The six exemplars I pass have all had their phones taken away, but the boxes can’t be removed as they are listed. The kiosks have instead been resolutely drilled shut.
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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
