Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, has conceded that it will require substantial time for a Labour government to steer Britain back on course, lambasting the Conservatives for what she described as economic vandalism spanning the past 14 years. Speaking ahead of next week’s budget, Reeves remarked that whichever party clinchesContinue Reading

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The Chancellor is currently examining the possibility of abolishing the tax status enjoyed by individuals residing in the UK but maintaining their tax domicile overseas. Known as non-domiciled or non-doms, these individuals are only liable to pay UK tax on income earned within the UK, with no obligation to payContinue Reading

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Music therapy could help manage the pain of bereavement

Kzenon/Shutterstock Grief has always inspired songwriters. Popular songs including Let Me Go, by Gary Barlow, Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven and The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics, were all written as a way of working through the grief of losing a loved one. Tears in Heaven deals withContinue Reading

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Losing their tails provided our ape ancestors with an evolutionary advantage – but we’re still paying the price

Unlike humans, many animals still have tails. vblinov/Shutterstock Put the word “evolution” into Google images and the results are largely variations on one theme: Ralph Zallinger’s illustration, March of Progress. Running left to right, we see a chimp-like knuckle walker gradually becoming taller and standing erect. Implicit in such imagesContinue Reading

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